At the top of Love Austin Music Month we re-introduced you to Austin Music Foundation’s Artist Development Program and their new compilation ATX Gen Next: Adventures in Person. ATX Gen Next: Adventures in Personfeatures a dozen original songs from six Austin artists, including indie-pop/Americana-folk aficionado Natalie Price...

Austin Music Foundation’s Artist Development Program has just entered their fifth year and in honor of Love Austin Music Month they’re releasing their third record, ATX Gen Next: Adventures in Person – recorded at The Bubble and produced by Chris “Frenchie” Smith and Einar Pedersen. The album officially drops mid-January and the vinyl edition is out this Summer, but we’ll be featuring the compilation in full over the next few weeks, starting today with Natalie Price...

Hometown: Austin, Texas
Pairs well with: A contemplative cup of tea while wearing your favorite sweater; sending a sappy text to a friend or significant other 

Natalie Price's "The Island" is a sparse and tender love song: We hear just Price's voice and a kalimba — a kind of miniature plucked piano. The instrument has a music-box quality to it, and its childlike sweetness matches perfectly with Price's lyrics: a sentimental narration of two people just at the beginning of falling in love, feeling like they've finally found dry land after years out at sea. —Jon Lewis