Drop Nineteens are working on their follow-up to great comeback album Hard Light, but meanwhile singer/guitarist Paula Kelley has announced her first solo album in 20 years. It’s titled Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out and will be out March 27 via Wharf Cat.
The first single from the album is the dreamy “Party Line,” and Paula says it “made me think of Spiritualized with Telescopes doing the vocals. It’s the requisite post-Cold War influenced track.” She adds, “When the song came to me it presented nearly fully formed- a pedaling bass line, a four part vocal harmony, an expansive soundscape. Sometimes songs sound great in your head but then don’t translate well into reality. I was lucky with this one. As I was recording part upon part, it felt as though the song was writing itself. It’s a dreamy song about dreams—not the kind that come during sleep, but rather wishes, anxieties, projections—as a way to work through and reconcile an unhappy past.”
Listen below.
Drop Nineteens have a few live dates in November, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn’s Elsewhere on November 21 with Lowertown, Colle, Birthday Girl, and Me at Night.
Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out
Party Line
You Are Stars
Static
Freight
All I Wanna Do
The Girl Who Never Was
God Will Someone Tell Me
Everybody’s on to Me
The Takedown
The Denial
The Night