It’s been a captivating run for Alaska Reid. When I first encountered the LA-based Montana native’s music seven years in the past, she was making moody guitar-powered alt-rock with the band Alyeska. Since going solo in 2019, her music has taken a poppier, extra artificial flip whereas sustaining the identical twilit, diaristic vibe. By the tip of 2020 she was working with elite producers A. G. Cook and Rodaidh McDonald. Now comes information that she co-produced her debut album with Cook, the PC Music ringleader and hyperpop pioneer.
That album, Disenchanter, is coming in July through Gorilla vs. Bear’s Luminelle label, a subsidiary of Fat Possum. It’s mentioned to attract from nation, grunge, and easygoing California rock as filtered by Cook’s signature digital eccentricity. Lead single “Back To This,” which arrives as we speak with a video by Santiago Cendejas, is a misty, prismatic pop-rock track that comprises glimmers of all that however principally goes down clean. “Running through these dreams,” Reid sings on the refrain. “I wanna go back to this.” According to Reid, it’s impressed by a time when she encountered a bunch of service staff on a break whereas climbing within the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness:
It was late summer season and so they seemed glad and dusty. It was like a painted reverie from a classical portray. I fantasize about different folks’s lives, different folks’s professions, and writing is a manner I can approximate what it should be prefer to be another person. So this track is about stumbling upon a scene in another person’s life and eager to be part of it, but it surely’s additionally about questioning if I ever appeared as cool or as worthy as these smokejumpers did. I additionally had this concept of trying again at a photograph and questioning why, on the time, I didn’t really feel just like the model of myself trying again within the picture.
Watch under.
TRACKLIST:
01 “French Fries”
02 “Dogs & Girls”
03 “She Wonders”
04 “Leftover”
05 “Palomino”
06 “Back To This”
07 “Arctic Heart”
08 “Always”
09 “Seeds”
10 “Airship”
Disenchanter is out 7/14 on Luminelle.