"Home" is a tough thing to pinpoint for someone who's constantlyin motion. Scout Gillett knows this well, but since relocating fromKansas City in 2017, she's found one in Brooklyn's DIY scene, playingin multiple live bands and even starting her own booking company toorganize local shows. Her intrepid nature results from a childhoodspent running barefoot through rural Missouri and coming of age inKansas City's punk scene. Her debut solo album no roof no floor is abold and spirited yet warm, intimate meditation on trust, surrender,and what makes a home.Following the sudden overdose of a lover in 2018 and the onset ofthe 2020 quarantine, Scout returned to Missouri in search of reprieve.Instead, she was dismayed to find that her hometown was suffering;friends and family members were caught in the grips of drug andalcohol addiction. Overcome by grief and helplessness, she retreatedinward, channeling her fears and frustrations, as she always had, intosongwriting. The resulting songs were more vulnerable than any of herprior work, and it was a while before the notion of sharing them evenoccurred to her. Then Nick Kinsey, the album's producer, called fromhis recording studio The Chicken Shack in Stanfordville, New York totell Scout that his friends Ellen Kempner (Palehound) and David Lizmi(MS MR) had relocated upstate, and were interested in working on analbum with her.Recorded in a big wooden barn with the doors wide open, there's asense of spaciousness on no roof no floor befitting its title. On somesongs, there are even audible cricket chirps. The arrangements, too_which feature contributions from Kempner, Lizmi, and Kevin Copeland(The Big Net)_reflect Scout's rural roots and her indie spirit; a fusionof upbeat, guitar-driven melodies and folk/country instrumentationlike pedal steel, harmonica, and tenor banjo. All of these elementsare underpinned by Scout's signature soaring, velvet vocals and open-hearted lyricism. She arrives at her thesis on the haunti...