LOLA KIRKE
Premieres Christmas Songs "Cross You Off My List" + "Little Drummer Girl"
California Shows This December
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| Photo credit: Wyndham Boylan-Garnett |
"Lola Kirke, who has built a career on her authenticity and feminism, is creating Christmas songs in the way that only she can make them." - Paper
Lola Kirke released her debut album Heart Head West earlier this year on Downtown Records, and today she follows up the record with two holiday twists on her Cosmic American sound. Paper premiered Lola's two new Christmas songs -- a spirited original called "Cross You Off My List" and "Little Drummer Girl," a feminine update on the holiday classic.
LISTEN / SHARE: "CROSS YOU OFF MY LIST" + "LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL"
Lola first started writing "Cross You Off My List" in the 2016 holiday season, following that year's presidential election. "It was a much more somber sounding song that set out to question how to celebrate Christmas in such a fraught environment," she says. "While we're still conflicted about how to invoke the 'spirit of Christmas' in today's political climate, we decided to revise the song-set it to a more a upbeat chord progression and dash it with a bit more hope." As for the cover, she says, "With 'Little Drummer Girl' our intentions were somewhat similar - we wanted to update an old narrative by changing the gender of the character within the song and set the classic to a musical landscape that was both exciting to us and also peaceful."
Following her sold-out shows in the UK this month, Lola will return to California for three holiday shows in late December. Tickets are available HERE.
DEC 19: Cafe du Nord - San Francisco, CA
DEC 20: Resident - Los Angeles, CA
DEC 21: Pappy & Harriet's - Pioneertown, CA
Heart Head West is available now on Downtown Records.
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Lola Kirke is no stranger to shape shifting - as an actress with a steadily ascending star, she's had major roles in David Fincher's Gone Girl and Noah Baumbach's Mistress America, as well as the Golden Globe-winning Amazon show Mozart in the Jungle. While less in the fore, her passion for music has stayed constant, with her guitar following her from dressing room to dressing room.
Born to a musical family (her father is Simon Kirke, drummer of Bad Company and Free, and her sister is singer-songwriter Domino Kirke), Lola embarked on her own musical journey with her four-track EP released in 2016.
Tracked live to tape in East Los Angeles and produced by frequent collaborator Wyndham Garnett (Elvis Perkins in Dearland, WYNDHAM) her debut LP Heart Head West, asserts her as part of the artistic tradition she holds so dear: delivering her own heart, laid bare for someone else to hear as theirs. "It's a really personal record about basically everything I though about in 2017 - time, family, loss, social injustice, sex, drinking, longing-essentially everything I'd talk about with a close friend for 40 minutes."
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