Kate Bollinger - "Lonely" and "Sweet Devil"

"Lonely" and "Sweet Devil" appear on the Virginia-born, LA-based multidisciplinary artist's kaleidoscopic debut album, Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind, out September 27th. Bollinger has also placed them on a special, small-run 7" release for fans, available bundled with the LP.
 
"My friend Matt (Matthew E. White) and I began getting together and writing songs every couple of weeks or so, back when I lived in Virginia. On October 2nd of 2020, we met up for the first time on the tiny basketball court outside his studio with a keyboard and a vocal mic going through an amp, and wrote one of many since-abandoned songs. Sweet Devil and Lonely are two of our surviving collaborations."

The two songs show the album's breadth, which can feel like flipping through your coolest friend's record collection or scanning a mixtape filled with gems. "Lonely" offers one of its most intimate moments, a homespun piano ballad written with Matthew E. White that fits into a lineage of stripped-back pop classics dating back to The Beatles. The haunting B-side "Sweet Devil" smolders like a jazz standard as interpreted by Feist at her smokiest. The latter also comes with a music video out today.