Idol Chatter & Voice Views

It’s called “Forever Audrey” and features five tracks from the Season 4 contestant on The Voice.

Audrey released a video version of one of the songs, the haunting “Euphoria” a couple of weeks ago. You can check it out at right.

She describes “Euphoria” as a song “about desperation, fear of abandonment, co-dependency, and the crippling reality of living without something that once made you whole.”

Much of the video features Audrey lost in “a dark dream.” She says the hands reaching out for her represent the fears and insecurities that leave her restless and craving her former feeling of euphoria.

As for the EP as a whole, in a radio interview this week, Audrey described her music as emotional, cinematic, poppy and alternative.

“I’d say very whimsical and passion driven,” she added.

While the video hit YouTube a couple of weeks ago, none of the music was available until Friday when it hit iTunes. It’s a promising and diverse collection of songs. Highlights include the very poppy and catchy “West Coast” and a wonderful ballad called “Lightspeed”

Audrey was 20 when she auditioned for The Voice in the spring of 2013. She made it to the knockout round before being beaten by eventual Season 4 runner-up Michelle Chamuel.

She had previously auditioned for American Idol after winning a local Idol competition in Reno, Nevada, but says the show rejected her after three trips to appear before producers.

For that reason, she said she didn’t have high hopes when she tried The Voice, but says she was pleasantly surprised when the show kept calling her back. Still, she says she can be much more herself performing her own music.

And if you remember her from The Voice, you might recall that she also traveled to New York and tried modeling as a teen. In the radio interview, she jokes that she “failed utterly,” coming to the realization that modeling just wasn’t her thing.

“But it was a great life experience and gave me lots of stuff to write (songs) about,” she added.

You can keep up with Audrey on Facebook or through Twitter, simply at @AudreyKarrasch.

For a look at albums and EPs released in 2015 by former contestants on The Voice, head here. And please shoot me an email at [email protected] if I’ve missed anyone.