Paula Kelley, photo by Annabell Lee<\/p>\n
Paula Kelley<\/a>, a co-founding singer-guitarist in Boston shoegaze band Drop Nineteens<\/a> and several other indie-rock acts, has announced her first solo album in 20 years. Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out<\/a> is out March 27 via Wharf Cat<\/a>. Lead single \u201cParty Line<\/a>\u201d is described, by Kelley, as a \u201cpost-Cold War influenced track\u201d that incorporates some of the gauzy shoegaze she\u2019s knowing for, as well as some slowcore touches. Give it a listen below.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the song came to me it presented nearly fully formed: a pedaling bass line, a four part vocal harmony, an expansive soundscape,\u201d\u00a0Kelley said in a press release. \u201cSometimes songs sound great in your head but then don\u2019t 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\u2019s a dreamy song about dreams\u2014not the kind that come during sleep, but rather wishes, anxieties, projections\u2014as a way to work through and reconcile an unhappy past.\u201d<\/p>\n Spanning 11 tracks, Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out was written over the past few years while Kelley was stabilizing her pathway to sobriety. Her fourth solo album overall, following 2006\u2019s Some Sucker\u2019s Life, Part 1: Demos and Lost Recordings, turns its ear toward pop hooks and also builds off Kelley\u2019s background as an arranger and cowriter for studio sessions and indie film soundtracks.<\/p>\n Drop Nineteens broke up in 1995 and reunited in 2022. Their comeback album, Hard Light<\/a>, came out that following year.<\/p>\n Read about Drop Nineteens\u2019 Delaware<\/a> in \u201cThe 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out<\/strong>:<\/p>\n 01 Party Line
02 Static
03 You Are Stars
04 Freight
05 All I Wanna Do
06 The Girl Who Never Was
07 God Will Someone Tell Me
08 Everybody\u2019s on to Me
09 The Takedown
10 The Denial
11 The Night<\/p>\n