Katy Kirby announces new album ‘Blue Raspberry’ and shares new single ‘Table’
American indie singer-songwriter Katy Kirby has announced her second full-length LP, Blue Raspberry.
The follow up to her 2021 debut Cool Dry Place, Blue Raspberry sees Kirby push her own life and story to the fore. We’ve already heard that plan in motion with the album’s first preview single, ‘Cubic Zirconia’, and now we’re also getting it with the short-and-sweet ‘Table’.
“This record is much more personal than I intended it to be,” Kirby shared in a statement. “I was in a period of experimenting with how I write, and what came out was a song about a woman, about an imagined her – I didn’t think I was writing as or about myself, but these kinds of songs kept coming out, with fragments of overlapping lyrics linking them together like beads on a string. They seemed to inhabit the same world.”
Threading the needle between intimate folk and fuzzy indie rock, ‘Table’ also splits the difference between being a classic story song and an open-ended emotional trip down quasi-reality. That all sounds ridiculous, but it’s just part of what Kirby brings to the… table.
“[‘Table’ is] a thematic outlier on this record, and more of a lighthearted leftover from my god-haunted past life – it’s the last on the album and sort of serves as an epilogue or outro for the rest of the songs,” Kirby added. “Most importantly it’s quite fun to sing.”
“I felt like I was intending to write love songs for the first time. Once I realized they were queer love songs and celebrating artificiality, I wanted them to sound like they were bidding for a spot in the wedding reception canon,” Kirby says about Blue Raspberry. “It was more fun to just go for it than to try to restrain ourselves. Especially if we were just accepting the fact that we were trying to make objectively beautiful music, whatever that means.”
Check out ‘Table’, plus the tracklisting for Blue Raspberry, down below. Blue Raspberry is set for a January 24th release.
Blue Raspberry tracklisting:
1. ‘Redemption Arc’
2. ‘Fences’
3. ‘Cubic Zirconia’
4. ‘Hand to Hand’
5. ‘Wait Listen’
6. ‘Drop Dead’
7. ‘Party of the Century’
8. ‘Alexandria’
9. ‘Salt Crystal’
10. ‘Blue Raspberry’
11. ‘Table’
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