Buick Audra is a Grammy Award-winning musician, songwriter, and producer living in Nashville, TN. She is also the guitarist, vocalist, and primary songwriter in the melodic heavy duo, Friendship Commanders. Today, the artist, is sharing  “Firstborn,” the latest single from her new album, Adult Child, a collection about identity, estrangement, and trying to outrun one’s lineage, the song exists as a breezy but solemn state-of-the- union anchor in which Audra outlines what was once true, what’s true now, and what may always be true: she’s on her own. Adult Child will arrive on July 13 2025.

Adult Child was produced by Buick Audra across sessions at two Nashville locations: Sound Emporium Studio A, and her own Fort Knockout Studio. She is joined by Jerry Roe, Lex Price, and Kris Donegan on six of the tracks. Her longtime collaborator Kurt Ballou (Converge) mixed the album. The artwork mirrors the music’s collage theme and was all rendered by Audra using Polaroids, layering techniques, and her own handwriting.

Audra on Adult Child:

“This project comes from two different places. The first, is a set of awarenesses about my tendencies and cycles that are absolutely informed by what I come from, but which I sometimes still perpetuate today. The second, is a desire to own the identities I wear in this life, not to have them defined by other people. Right at the intersection of those two things is this term I’ve been using since I was eighteen years old: adult child. Maybe that term is familiar to you, maybe it isn’t. But in some spaces, those two words tell the person I’m speaking to that I was raised without the typical supports in place, that I have an outsized sense of responsibility, and that I struggle with my self-worth. Worse, if I advocate for my own wellbeing, I might gain a relationship with myself while jeopardizing relationships with others. It’s tricky. This is a record about fighting for myself, often against my own DNA.”

on “Firstborn:”

“’Firstborn’ was written, by looking out my window at a tree that only flowers about ten days per year. But when she does, it’s magical. Every Spring, when that tree blooms, I feel more hopeful than usual. So, this time, I documented it. The record holds some painful self-awareness and truth-telling. This track is like the release valve at the end. While those difficult pieces of my story are all true, so is this. Most of the time, I’m okay. I have a beautiful life that I’ve built quite intentionally. Am I still estranged from my parental figures? Yes.

Do I remember what it was like to have them around—to have them approve of me? Sure. It was easier and harder back then. It asked a lot of me, and I don’t have that to give right now. I’m acutely aware—more than ever, after losing some friends too young—that my primary job is to take care of myself, whatever that looks like. And right now, it looks like being way over here, watching this tree go through its annual cycles. It’s more reliable than those relationships were, and it brings me some much-needed ease and perspective.”

The video for “Firstborn” was shot in Audra’s own back yard amid some of the Springtime growth she’s become so fond of. She co-directed with Jerry Roe, who also shot and edited.  “Right before we made this video, another gorgeous tree in the yard was damaged in some extreme Tennessee winds; half of it split from the main trunk, falling straight across the yard. The whole thing had to be removed, which was a huge point of grief. So, before it went, we shot this video with me standing among the branches of the fallen half. The song that started with a tree also ended with a tree. And if we really want to dive into symbolism (and I always do), I saw the split as a simple act of nature. Maybe mine is, too.”

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