{"id":2503557,"date":"2026-07-15T19:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2503557"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:44:42","slug":"premiere-kelly-doyle-shares-new-single-cold-open-under-the-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/premiere-kelly-doyle-shares-new-single-cold-open-under-the-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere: Kelly Doyle Shares New Single \u201cCold Open\u201d | Under the Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Premiere: Kelly Doyle Shares New Single \u201cCold Open\u201d<\/h3>\n

New LP Thieves<\/i> is Out on August 14th via Strolling Bones Records<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tBy Caleb Campbell<\/span>
\n\t\t\tPhotography by Javier Fernandez<\/span>
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Houston-based guitarist Kelly Doyle<\/a> has been a go-to sideman and session player in his local scene for years, moving between genres while sharing stages and studios with the likes of Phosphorescent, Craig Finn, Robert Ellis, What Made Milwaukee Famous, and Khruangbin. His upcoming album, Thieves<\/i>, takes a similarly expansive approach to Doyle\u2019s own music. After a long period making ambient music, Thieves<\/i> represents Doyle\u2019s return to instrumental guitar-focused compositions, now using his guitar as one moving part in a larger whole. <\/p>\n

The resulting instrumentals draw on immersive pedal steel, ambient compositions, jazz and country. \u201cI really don\u2019t think of it as jazz at all,\u201d Doyle says. \u201cI know it\u2019s a necessary descriptor that you have to use. But I think of it as just part of a trajectory of things I dig.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album was produced and mixed by Steve Christensen (Khruangbin, Steve Earle) and features Doyle on guitar, Will Story on bass, Jeremy Bruch on drums, and Nelson Deveraux on saxophone. <\/p>\n

Doyle has already shared the album\u2019s lead single, \u201cBats Are Cute,\u201d<\/a> and today he is sharing another new track, \u201cCold Open,\u201d alongside an accompanying live video, premiering with Under the Radar.<\/p>\n

\u201cCold Open\u201d finds Doyle and his collaborators carefully crafting a dreamy and surreal mood piece. The focus shifts between Doyle\u2019s guitar, Deveraux\u2019s sax, and the entrancing dance of melodies between the two, all while Bruch\u2019s drums ripple out in hypnotic elliptical rhythms. At moments, the results recall Angelo Badalamenti\u2019s Twin Peaks<\/i> soundtrack, combining smoky lounge jazz sax runs with an otherworldly mood. It is a track that feels steeped in simmering nocturnal mystery and uncanny liminality, all shaped by Doyle and his bandmates\u2019 playful, exploratory soloing. <\/p>\n

Doyle says of the track, \u201c\u2018Cold Open\u2019 is kinda like if Wim Wenders made a spaghetti western in space. It feels like a lost soundtrack cue\u2014moody, spacious, and careful. The record has a long ambient ending, and it\u2019s like the characters float off into space and die.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out the song and video below. <\/span>Thieves <\/i>is out on August 14th via Strolling Bones Records.<\/span><\/p>\n