A Love Song to the Walls That Held Us: Allie Crummy Releases "This House"

July 30, 2025

A Love Song to the Walls That Held Us: Allie Crummy Releases "This House"

In a world too often enthralled with steel and pace, Allie Crummy slows down to sing of quiet, of heat, and of recollection. Her single, "This House", arrives not just as a track, but as a tapestry of time—all neatly interwoven with years of laughter, lullabies, and the gentle squeak of creaking floors familiar. Released on June 20, from her home base in Des Moines, Iowa—it's a love note to the shelter that sustained her family's life. Allie, hands on guitar strings and heart on every line, conveys vulnerability and strength, crafting a piece as intimate as it is universal.

There is a nakedness in this song that's like gazing behind the curtain of someone else's much-loved past. With Bryan Vanderpool's drums and bass holding the song up like a house rests upon its foundation, Allie's voice rises above, telling the story of nearly 16 years of life within four walls—four walls that watched her become a wife, a mother, an artist. "This House" adopts a tone from the warmth of Madison Cunningham's rubber bridge guitar, which sounded Allie ingeniously replicated using a DIY setup with a tennis racket shock absorber. What's created is retro and progressive at the same time, rounded at the edges but firmly based in reality.

As the lead single from her upcoming fifth album, "This House" sets the tone for a celebration of life as a whole—life in all its rough, unvarnished, imperfect glory. Where machines would strive to be perfect, Allie celebrates the beauty of scratched edges and faded sun drapes, of the little things that we forget in our zeal for something newer or bigger. It's not really a song about a building so much as it is about the soul of a place. It sentimentalizes the ordinary, encouraging us to look at what we already have—gritty, creaky, cluttered—and realize that life actually occurs there.

Recorded at Golden Bear Studios, where Allie also engineers and produces the record, the song is proof of her talent and commitment. From capturing gear in her home to filming the music video in a Swiss summer retreat with her husband, "This House" is alive with a do-it-yourself, heart-of-heart philosophy. It's not a tune built from notes, but from moments. Allie Crummy did not just pen a song—you could say she built one, note-by-melodic-note, into something cozy for anyone who listens.