Audren’s Good Road: A Journey Through Loss and Light

September 23, 2025

Audren’s Good Road: A Journey Through Loss and Light

The road has never been anything but an expanse of earth--pilgrimage, prayer on the wind, symbol, journey. For Audren, acclaimed author and songwriter, that road now is The Good Road, her latest indie pop/soft rock. Poetry, the cement of her life, spills from the tune like morning dew, and whispers gently but persistently: "Have you been a golden sound? Like the dewdrops of the world, can you change the world here?"

In an era clouded by conflict, Audren invites us to turn our gaze beyond the rubble, to restore beauty, nature, and community as the signposts to peace. If Audren speaks of nostalgia, it's not the saccharine type-tough, pained, and glowing. Composing The Good Road was a tearful experience, she acknowledges, reminding her of lost trust and fading wonder. But in the pain there is a plea: an appeal of wholeness and healing. Nostalgia, in her hand, is given form as a lantern that illuminates the places within us where time has not, asking us to start anew in courage.

It is this combination of vulnerability and power that makes her music more than sound--it becomes soul medicine. In order to make the song's nostalgic sheen even more profound, longtime collaborator and virtuoso jazz guitarist Chris Rime provides hypnotic strings, a swirling Hammond organ swell, and even a Beatles-esque reference slips into the melody. The song is living like a living memory--at times soft and whispery, at times exploding into gospel-sounding choirs that keep reminding us that little streams are capable of turning into great rivers.

From Lennon-like echoes of political truth to the close camaraderie of communal voices, the song bends despair into hope, loneliness into unity. The Good Road is more than a song--it's a hymn of spiritual inspiration, an anthemic prayer for a brighter tomorrow. Released as the second single from her forthcoming album Think Freedom (Nov. 2025), it illustrates Audren's skill at enfolding the turbulence of life within lyrical brightness. Having been lived through the lens of a video game, then quieted by illness, and transformed into a bestselling writer, Audren has walked her own share of shadowy paths. Now, surrounded by her tribe of makers, she picks up music once more with an act that is both personal and public: an offer to walk alongside us, to be repaired with us, and to keep on choosing joy as we tread The Good Road.