The new single appears on her forthcoming EP
Global country-pop sensation Dasha returns with “Train,” a moving song about the meaning of home out now via Warner Records. The sweetly wistful cut is the latest taste of the Nashville-based singer and songwriter’s upcoming Anna EP, due out October 10th, and arrives just days after she kicks off her Canadian headline tour.
“Train” cleverly connects a single sound to the idea of getting settled into a new place. At the song’s start, Dasha sings about a pesky train she hears outside her window first thing every morning. But as the track evolves, from her stripped-down vocal over acoustic strum to a swell of dobro, piano, pedal steel, and shuffling drums, so do her feelings. In time, the same way a locomotive finds its rhythm on the tracks, that bothersome noise becomes part of her new city’s charm, as she sings the nostalgic hook, “Because time changes everything / You hang some pictures up and make / Habit out of taking the same way to the grocery store / You learn the turns and time the lights, the town you didn’t recognize / Becomes a little more like home.”
“This is actually my first outside cut, which feels so special because Nashville is built on the songwriters and the stories they tell. When I first heard this one, it was like it had been written straight out of my own diary,” shares the California native. “It instantly took me back to being 18, leaving home and moving to Nashville to study songwriting at Belmont, figuring out who I was and trying to get comfortable in a brand-new world. All those emotions are wrapped up in this song, and I’m so grateful I get to be the voice behind it.”
A solo write by Nashville songwriter Kyle Sturrock, who just celebrated his first No. 1 with Blake Shelton’s “Texas,” the new single follows the flirty and fiery “Like It Like That,” whose official video stars Love Island’s Rob Rausch and entrepreneur/influencer Briley King. Before that came the deeply vulnerable “Oh, Anna!” and “Not At This Party,” a certified Dasha banger that’s generated over 127 million streams to date, spawned a remix by Grammy Award-winning superstar David Guetta.
Dasha, born Anna Dasha Novotny, recently announced the forthcoming Anna EP with an intimate message for her followers: “Getting back into the studio and writing helped me find myself again. This project is part one of my story. I’m still learning about Dasha, but I’ve remembered who Anna is. I can’t wait for y’all to get to know her, too.”
Dasha broke out with the 2023 release of her now globally 40-times platinum smash single “Austin (Boots Stop Workin’)” from her debut country album What Happens Now. With the help of a Dasha-choreographed line dance, the song became a worldwide sensation, taking over TikTok, honky tonks, and radio waves worldwide while amassing more than 1.5 billion streams.
