“Brutal, Beautiful, & Reborn”: Love, Alexa Launches Her Soulful ‘Spring Cleaning’ EP - Atwood Magazine

      Singer-songwriter Love, Alexa guides us track-by-track through her EP 'Spring Cleaning,' an emotionally resonant and brutally honest collection that transforms experiences of grief, heartbreak, and self-doubt into beauty, clarity, and a cathartic rebirth. This is her most vulnerable and imaginative work to date, featuring five tracks that intertwine dreamy folk, country, and blues into a luminous fabric of healing, transformation, liberation, and empowerment.

      Stream: ‘Spring Cleaning’ EP – Love, Alexa

      I’ll jump the fence you painted white,

      I’d rather die than be the painter’s wife.

      Won’t let you win the war, I’m not nothing after all…

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      Love, Alexa’s new EP begins softly and crescendos into a powerful finale. Through five deeply emotional songs, the Detroit-born artist pours her experiences onto the page in vivid detail, illustrating her pain, growth, confrontation, and rebirth with striking vulnerability. Spring Cleaning is an intensely raw and beautifully poignant expression: an intimate, diary-like indie folk journey that weaves the softness of dream pop with the rawness of Americana and the essence of country blues. It is both heartbreaking and empowering — a deeply personal soundtrack for moving on from what no longer serves us while reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we believed were lost.

      “I’m not nothing after all,” she asserts at the conclusion of “The Painter’s Wife,” a line that resonates like a revelation, echoing long after the music concludes. Spring Cleaning serves as a compelling exploration of healing, accountability, and spiritual renewal, with Love, Alexa embracing her authentic voice and shedding past burdens in a vibrant and soul-exposing transformation.

      Spring Cleaning EP – Love, Alexa

      I don’t trust a gut feeling,

      Lost my will to believe,

      I’ve been wrong before,

      That’s something he taught me.

      There’s a war on the horizon,

      It’s the kind that no one sees,

      It’s the kind that scares me the most.

      Waiting for the coast to clear,

      I’ll stay quiet if you’re still here.

      I’ll offer you

      Everything I am,

      To paint a flag the brightest white,

      To live and die a painter’s wife.

      I let you win the war;

      It’s just easier

      To be nothing at all.

      – “The Painter’s Wife,” Love, Alexa

      Atwood Magazine is thrilled to premiere Spring Cleaning, the third EP from Love, Alexa — a heartfelt testimony of the heart, soul, and spirit. Independently releasing on June 20, 2025, the LA-based artist’s latest five-track collection showcases her most personal and poetic work thus far — a tender, turbulent, and transformative exploration of grief, healing, identity, and release. Alexa Lusader has long harnessed music to process and purge the innermost parts of herself, and Spring Cleaning embodies her most fearless and unencumbered state: from the haunting depths of “Mouth” and “Jealousy” to the liberating, sunlit title track, she warmly invites us into her world.

      “After releasing my last EP, Dirty Child, I fell into a deep depression,” Lusader shares with Atwood Magazine. “Initially, I thought it was postpartum-related, but soon I realized it was much deeper. At that time, my dad and stepmom invited me on a Mexican cruise — a favorite of Midwesterners. Instead of partying, I turned off my phone and spent every night sitting on the balcony, gazing at the stars rising from the ocean. It was the night sky that guided me to be more honest. This propelled me on a spiritual journey where the first step was clearing out what was buried and trapped — hence the title.”

      Love, Alexa emerged as a transformation.

      She introduced her stage name in 2018 with Dear You…, an introspective and electronic-tinged EP that she described as “me creating music for me.” This project marked a pivotal moment in Alexa Lusader’s life, leading her to cast off others' expectations and reclaim her artistic independence. However, she was still discovering herself.

      “Since I was young, I was captivated by writing, pen to paper,” she explains. “Whether it was journaling or writing letters resembling love notes, I always signed off with ‘Love, Alexa.’ Gradually, I began posting little notes on my Instagram. It felt like a natural evolution… more personal — a focus on raw, unseen emotions.”

      In 2023, Dirty Child advanced her sound deeper into analog territory, replacing electronic embellishments with the warmth of a live band and weaving rock, folk, Americana, and early 2000s pop into a vibrant and vulnerable tapestry. “Spring Cleaning elevated that sound,” Lusader reflects, “bringing more clarity to who I am and what I have to express.”

      Love, Alexa openly labels Spring Cleaning as “brutal, beautiful, and reborn,” effectively summarizing this five-song