MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Kiely Connell’s “Restless Bones” [Video]

Sometimes it’s the mundane things that stick with you years after a sudden tragedy. “I still remember walking into school, drenched from the rain,” says Indiana-raised, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Kiely Connell. “The squeaky sounds of my soggy shoes were competing with the announcement on the loudspeaker that we’d lost a classmate.”

“Restless Bones” is Connell’s tribute to a high-school friend who took his own life. It’s a standout track from her big-hearted sophomore LP, My Own Company. Due out via Thirty Tigers on July 19, the album follows a harrowingly honest narrative arc, from the unbearable grief that accompanies loss to the life-altering revelations that come with recovery.

“Everyone who ever knew him was forever changed in that moment,” says Connell of the suicide that rocked her young world. “The memory of my teenage friends thrown into the role of carrying his casket—which they couldn’t fully comprehend or be prepared for—will be imprinted …