Paris Jackson has launched a grungy new single titled “bandaid,” which takes inspiration from bands like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins.
After debuting the observe in a stripped-back, acoustic efficiency for SPIN final 12 months, the studio model has now arrived.
“I dream of you when I’m bleeding out, I’m veiny,” the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and activist sings over rumbling guitars and a noir bassline. “I wonder if there’s a small amount in your heart/A part of you that loved/Or if I was just another stain that made/A decent bandaid.”
As properly as Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, Jackson was additionally impressed by Interpol for the observe’s sound. She additionally took lyrical affect from Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull – with whom she labored on her debut album, wilted – and Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst.
“This is the type of music I used to dream of making myself when I was 14, discovering Nirvana and Pixies for the first time,” Jackson stated. “Lyrically, it’s the most raw and vulnerable I’ve ever been in any of my songs. It’s the first track I’ve truly let loose and yelled on in the studio, which you can hear in the third chorus, and I feel like that’s why it had to be the title track for my next record.”
She continued: “I’m grateful to have also started producing, and Simon Oscroft has been the perfect partner to do that with after having learned everything I know from Andy and Rob in the studio previously. I’m also deeply honored by my good friend Anthony Salazar who, when I said, ‘hit those drums harder than Tommy Lee on wild side,’ did just that. I hope there are people out there that get from it what I got from albums like “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning” by Bright Eyes, a report that actually made me really feel heard and understood from the within out.”
Jackson is at the moment on tour in North America in help of The Silversun Pickups. After that tour wraps subsequent month, she’s going to head to competition levels, together with BottleRock Festival in Napa, CA, and Manchester, TN’s Bonnaroo.
“Bandaid” isn’t the primary time Jackson has referenced Nirvana in her work. Last spring, the musician paid tribute to the enduring ‘90s band’s track “Sliver” within the video for her single “lighthouse.”