Paula Kelley, a co-founding singer-guitarist in Boston shoegaze band Drop Nineteens and a number of other different indie-rock acts, has introduced her first solo album in 20 years. Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out is out March 27 through Wharf Cat. Lead single “Party Line” is described, by Kelley, as a “post-Chilly Battle influenced monitor” that includes among the gauzy shoegaze she’s figuring out for, in addition to some slowcore touches. Give it a hear beneath.
“When the track got here to me it offered practically totally shaped: a pedaling bass line, a 4 half vocal concord, an expansive soundscape,” Kelley stated in a press launch. “Generally songs sound nice in your head however then don’t translate properly into actuality. I used to be fortunate with this one. As I used to be recording half upon half, it felt as if the track was writing itself. It’s a dreamy track about desires—not the sort that come throughout sleep, however fairly needs, anxieties, projections—as a strategy to work via and reconcile an sad previous.”
Spanning 11 tracks, Blinking because the Starlight Burns Out was written over the previous few years whereas Kelley was stabilizing her pathway to sobriety. Her fourth solo album total, following 2006’s Some Sucker’s Life, Half 1: Demos and Misplaced Recordings, turns its ear towards pop hooks and likewise builds off Kelley’s background as an arranger and cowriter for studio periods and indie movie soundtracks.
Drop Nineteens broke up in 1995 and reunited in 2022. Their comeback album, Hard Light, got here out that following 12 months.
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