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Home is a tough thing to pinpoint for someone who's constantly in motion. Scout Gillett knows this well, but since relocating from Kansas City in 2017, she's found one in Brooklyn's DIY scene, playing in multiple live bands and even starting her own booking company to organize local shows. Her intrepid nature results from a childhood spent running barefoot through rural Missouri and coming of age in Kansas City's punk scene. Her debut solo album no roof no floor features shades of all her past and present lives a bold and spirited yet warm, intimate meditation on trust, surrender, and what makes a home.Following the sudden overdose of a lover in 2018 and the onset of the 2020 quarantine, Scout returned to Missouri in search of reprieve. Instead, she was dismayed to find that her hometown was suffering; friends and family members were caught in the grips of drug and alcohol addiction. InchNothing was as I'd remembered,Inch she says. InchI felt homesick for a home that no longer seemed to exist.Inch Overcome by grief and helplessness, she retreated inward, channeling her fears and frustrations, as she always had, into songwriting. InchI meditated on surrender,Inch she says; InchI recited the serenity prayer. I realized that I'd never be able to save anybody but myself.Inch Back in New York in the standstill of the pandemic, she sat with the raw emotion of what she'd written. The songs were more vulnerable than any of her prior work, and it was a while before the notion of sharing them even occurred to her. Then Nick Kinsey, the album's producer, called from his recording studio The Chicken Shack in Stanfordville, New York, and an unmissable opportunity presented itself. Kinsey told Scout that his friends Ellen Kempner (Palehound) and David Lizmi (MS MR) had relocated upstate, and were interested in working on an album with her. It was an intimidating proposition - Scou
