The Fat Angel Sings

Its poetry reflective with a dusty realism, “American Steel” is the sweetly-stirring brand-new single from Nashville’s Van Darien and its tough new video captures a sympathetic nostalgia. The track appears on her recently-released, ten-song Levee LP. You can find all the relevant streaming and download links you’ll need to listen to it by visiting her website,

The Texas singer-songwriter Van Darien has the unmistakable gift of gracing listeners with a sense of place and song by her enrapturing voice alone. This enchanting talent came from in the blue-collar industrial backyard that Darien grew up surrounded by, and as a result, that aesthetic has remained engrained in her music since relocating to Nashville in 2015.

Van Darien will independently release her full-length debut titled Levee, an album that strings together personal experiences bound by water and steel. Produced by Steven Cooper and JD Tiner at East Nashville’s Glass Onion Studio, Levee serves as a 2020 must-hear record that showcases her poignant songwriting with contagious elements of pop and Americana. Darien’s full-length debut features contributions from Brandy Zdan, Owen Beverly (Indianola), Thayer Serrano (Cracker, Patterson Hood, Nicole Atkins), Mando Saenz, Joey Green, and Maren Morris, with Morris co-writing the tracks “Low Road” and “Twisted Metal.”