Feel was the last full-length album Krista Parrish and her band recorded in 2012 before Krista and Steven stepped away from music to start a family.

Recorded at the legendary Studio 4, the album brought the band together with Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer Phil Nicolo, whose extensive credits include work with Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Aerosmith, Cypress Hill, and many others. Feel was written, performed, and produced by Krista Parrish, with her band backing her throughout the record, while Nicolo handled the album’s engineering and mastering.

Several songs grew from the unique chemistry between the musicians themselves. “Best Friend” was written by Krista and Steven, while the title track, “Feel,” began as a collaborative musical experience between the trio, with Krista later writing the lyrics. “Doo Bah” was another piece born collaboratively among the three musicians and gives Krista an opportunity to showcase her improvisational scatting, keeping one foot firmly planted in her jazz roots.

Where Krista’s previous album, Playing with Pendulums, was an intensely personal collection created during a period of grief, much of it inspired by and connected to her late brother and musical partner, Corey Parrish; Feel marked a shift forward. The album explores new musical territory, at times embracing an infectious indie-pop groove and at others returning to the deeply spiritual, intuitive, soul-level quality that has long connected Krista’s music with her listeners.

Moving fluidly between indie and progressive rock, jazz, folk, and pop, Feel resists fitting neatly into any one genre. Instead, Krista blends those influences into something distinctly her own, an album with a little something for everyone, while remaining unmistakably connected to the heart, intuition, and musical roots from which her work has always grown.