Julianna Riolino releases new track “Would That It Were So Simple”, the song is of her forthcoming deluxe edition of her new album Echo in the Dust Deluxe, arriving February 27 via Moonwhistle Records. The new expanded version of the record arrives with three bonus tracks.

Riolino says: “The distant drum, the echoed hum, the sleeping beauty awakens to the world she has created. Surrounding her are past, present and future decisions. Floating through her circling thoughts, spinning her like a loom.. Wondering when the moment will be hers, or if it all is doomed.”

The songs off Echo In The Dust consider relationships of all sorts as the foundation for her awakening into a different creative self and person in this world; working through loss, grief, habits, and decisions she once made, seeking clarity in the past before leaving it to move forward. The adage “you don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been” rings especially true on this album.

By Riolino’s own admission, the album is different from her debut, All Blue. She breathes new confidence into her work. The celebrated songwriter is soft as she is tough on these songs; seeing the benefit of laying down armour and splitting her heart open so that we may get a glimpse of our own.

“What I’m talking about on Echo In The Dust are universally felt: you can have a romantic relationship, friendship, or professional relationship and start to identify as you grow and learn the toxic parts that can exist in all of those,” Riolino explains. “You think, ‘why do I feel bad? Why is this happening again?’ But I’m allowing this to happen because I haven’t told myself I deserve better. This record helped me learn to accept and love myself. To put myself first and stand on my own two feet.”

Riolino began recording for this new album in 2024 at Gold Standard Recorders in Toronto. While she played guitar, she also tapped her regular collaborators, Matthew “Roddy” Kuester to play bass and guitar, Peter Landi on drums, Thomas Hammerton on piano and synth, and producer of the album Aaron Goldstein on pedal steel. On top of that, a whole host of other instrumentalists rounded out the sound of the album including Alex Edkins (Weird Nightmare, Metz) on guitar for “Full Moon”, “Like a Rembrandt”, and “The Less I Know”, and Nashville’s Sean Thompson on guitar for “On A Bluebird’s Wing”.

The songs on All Blue, Riolino says, had the privilege of being played and workshopped in front of a crowd but the songs that make up Echo In The Dust were written before, during, and after her debut in moments of confusion and clarity. These songs are like journal entries; attempts at deciphering what she wants out of her relationships and creative life in music. She transports us into big feelings layered with guitar twangs, vivid pedal steel and walloping horns, anchored by her tender vocals as though she embodies Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt in one person.

Julianna Riolino
Echo in the Dust Deluxe
Tracklisting
Moonwhistle Records

1. Like A Rembrandt
2. Smile
3. Full Moon
4. Seed
5. Be Good to Your Mother
6. It’s A Shakedown
7. Running
8. Let Me Dream
9. On A Bluebird’s Wing
10. I Wonder
11. The Less I Know
12. Don’t Put Me in the Middle
13. Pain
14. Would That It Were So Simple

Julianna Riolino 2026 Tour Dates

Feb 25 – Kingston, ON – Broom Factory
Feb 26 – St Catharines, ON – Warehouse
May 14 – St Andrews, NB – Paddlefest
July 17 – Bukta Festiva – Tromsø, Norway
July 18 – Ravnedalen Live – Kristiansand, Norway

pre-order Echo in the Dust Deluxe by Julianna Riolino HERE