HALSEY EP 'ROOM 93'
OUT NOW ON ASTRALWERKS
#2 ALBUM ON ITUNES ALTERNATIVE CHART
#33 ALBUM ON ITUNES OVERALL
PRAISE FOR HALSEY
"Spacious and sweeping." - BILLBOARD
"Halsey has already found the perfect poppy sweet spot." - VOGUE
"Unexpectedly unnerving." - IDOLATOR
Order "Room 93" and instantly receive "Ghost" and new track "Is There Somewhere"
Order available as a digital EP download, a limited edition hotel room key (download card), or as part of a bundle with a one-of-a-kind upcycled vintage flannel
"Room 93",the debut EP from New Jersey native and artistic firebrand Ashley Frangipane - known to her legions of fans as Halsey - has been officially released via Astralwerks. Each phase of the rollout of her singles and videos has been met with fervent enthusiasm from fans who previously helped her trend worldwide on Twitter and who have gotten her album to #2 on the iTunes Alternative Chart and #33 overall in just one day.
The five-track collection features Halsey's debut single "Ghost", whose video premiered today exclusively on Idolator. Idolator has called the video "unexpectedly unnerving." Halsey says the song and video have a "sense of hopelessness" that depict "a relationship with someone who isn't emotionally available", one where "you feel their physical presence but the emotional one isn't there." "Ghost" previously launched the then-unsigned artist into regular rotation on Sirius XM Hits 1, vaulted her up the iTunes' alternative music chart, and led to multiple label offers including Astralwerks (who signed her one day after hearing the track).
Romance oozes through Room 93 both in aesthetics and in storytelling. The title references a fictional hotel room with the tracks exploring a loose narrative on the human intimacy of these temporary domiciles."It's a private world where you can really be yourself - or choose to be someone else,explains Halsey. "I've lived the past year in and out of hotels and have formed human relationships that have thrived and failed in the setting of those rooms. The setting of a hotel is forever permanent, and unchanging. The unsettling nature of this 'alternate universe' is what inspired the EP."
New EP tracks include "Is There Somewhere" , "Empty Gold", "Trouble (Stripped)", and "Hurricane" which premiered exclusively at Vogue.com.
Set in Brooklyn, the somnambulant "Hurricane" is a spectral look back at a fling with a drugged-out lover floating away from her. "There's an odd bit of feminism in it," she notes."There's triumph in the lyric; 'I don't belong to no city. I don't belong to no man.'"
Conversely, the sparse "Trouble" explores a man "who finds sick, sadistic pleasure in making me feel bad." "Empty Gold" explores that particular moment in a struggling relationship where you know you need to walk away to save yourself, but you're still hopeful and pleading to save it.
"It's like the end of an action movie when the hero finds vindication. It has this build up, you know? It feels climactic."
Though passions may run the gamut, there is a common thread that runs throughout her music: The protagonists never stick around to be victimized. The same can be said of the artist; Halsey strikes an uncanny balance of the sincere and subversive to powerful effect.
Room 93 Tracklist:
Is There Somewhere
Ghost
Hurricane
Empty Gold
Trouble (Stripped)
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