Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover – to each their own dot
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover close out the week with “to each their own dot”, a lead single from their second collaborative album “What Of Our Nature”, arriving yesterday. Working from opposite coasts — Heynderickx in Portland, OR and García Conover in Portland, ME — the duo split writing duties while drawing inspiration from Woody Guthrie’s archive as they examine colonialism and American identity.
Heynderickx’s vocals sit over finger-picked guitar, asking what we’ve forgotten about our nature. The song moves through watching systems fall apart, examining how mistrust feeds on itself while those in power profit from keeping people divided. She doesn’t pick sides, calling out both performative ideology and reactive anger. The writing gets specific about how conflict becomes circular, how people get manipulated into fighting each other while missing the bigger picture.
The arrangement stays spare, just voice and guitar working through questions without easy answers. Heynderickx pushes against shallow thinking on all sides, pointing out how everyone’s being played. It’s folk music that refuses comfort, choosing clear-eyed observation over reassurance.
“What Of Our Nature” sees both songwriters contributing tracks while exploring Guthrie’s themes of solidarity and collective care. García Conover’s “This Morning I Am Born Again” pulls directly from Guthrie’s archive, while Heynderickx’s contributions update those ideas for 2025.
Tracklist:
- Song For Alicia
- Mr. Marketer
- Boars
- Cowboying
- In Bulosan’s Words
- This Morning I Am Born Again
- Fluorescent Light
- Buffalo, 1981
- to each their own dot
- Red River Dry
