The New Yorker February 2024

Caught halfway between modern folk music, timeless roots-rock, and classic pop, Amy Speace's The American Dream is an album about balance and transition. It's also the eighth solo record from an award-winning songwriter who's spent most the 21st century on the move, playing 150 shows a year, forever keeping her eyes glued to the road ahead. With The American Dream, she gives herself the grace to glancebackward, too, writing reflective songs that turn glimpses of her past – a childhood bike ride with friends, an artistic awakening as a 20something New Yorker, a painful divorce – into fuel for chasing down a bolder, brighter present.