Britta Phillips Debut Album LUCK OR MAGIC

Britta Phillips Debut Album LUCK OR MAGIC  Out April 29 via Double Feature Records Spring Tour Dates Confirmed

"Rife with the gossamer, exotic melodies so synonymous with Phillips other musical projects...Luck Or Magic allows Phillips to shine, exhibiting that beyond being a fine vocalist and instrumentalist, she's also a superb songwriter." AV Club Britta Phillips is gearing up for the release of her debut solo album Luck Or Magic on April 29 (Double Feature Records) and recently shared a new single "Daydream" which you can listen to here .  Luck or Magic is five original songs and five covers and "Daydream" marks the first original she has revealed to date.   Phillips - who is a member of the bands Luna and Dean & Britta - has also confirmed her first tour dates in support of Luck Or Magic.  She will be playing in Texas next month (supporting Luna), London in the Fall with more to be confirmed. You can find the updated tour dates here and here: Tour Dates: MAY 4 - DALLAS - GRANADA THEATER MAY 5 - AUSTIN - MOHAWK MAY 7 - HOUSTON - NUMBERS OCTOBER 7 - LONDON - ACADEMY ISLINGTON Previous to sharing "Daydream" Britta released "Drive," her take on the song by The Cars. The video for the track features ODD FUTURE collaborator Errol Chatham and writer/ actress/ filmmaker and Angelino, Tierney Finster (Niko The Ikon, writer for The Mel). Interview Magazine talked to Britta about the video and her album - read the Q&A here!  Bio: The genesis of Luck or Magic, the debut solo album from Britta Phillips, was a 2012 lunch she had with the late Scott Hardkiss (renowned DJ and pioneer of San Francisco rave culture and electronic music). At the time Britta was busy touring the world as one half of Dean & Britta (Phillip's band with husband Dean Wareham) but the idea was appealing.  Scott had done some re-mixes for Dean & Britta, and though his background was in rave culture he was also a fan of Galaxie 500 (Dean's former band) so Britta was intrigued and by the end of the lunch a plan was hatched. Phillips soon found herself in Hardkiss' Brooklyn studio where they started working on what later became album tracks "Drive" and "Landslide."  Says Britta, "Scott recorded 'Drive' with me playing piano and singing, and I didn't think much of it, but a week later he came back with a re-mix based around a synthesized arpeggio and I loved it. Something similar happened with 'Landslide' - Scott wanted Dean to play one of his vintage guitar solos and once that was in place the track felt really dynamic."  Over the next several months Scott and Britta sent each other playlists for songwriting and production inspiration. "He sent me Sly & The Family Stone, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye, Low Motion Disco as well as sparse recordings like Arthur Russell's "Our Last Night Together." I sent him Chromatics, Glass Candy, LCD Soundsystem, Kraftwerk, T. Rex,  Beach House, and Lana Del Rey. And we crossed over on artists like Nancy Sinatra, Shuggie Otis, and Air," she explains. Britta and Scott continued working together for about a year finding odd bits of time to get together in between their respective other projects.  But in late March, 2013, just a few days before days before Britta and Dean were embarking on a move to Los Angeles, Scott passed away in his sleep, suddenly and shockingly, at age 43. Out in Los Angeles, Britta and Wareham started working on the score for Noah Baumbach's movie, Mistress America. "It was really hard to return to the record I had started with Scott. He was such a sweet and generous friend and champion of mine. I was crushed," Phillips confides. Eventually, she found herself writing in the couple's little studio in their back yard.  She says, "I think the sunshine... and maybe Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, helped pull me out of my funk. Scott had given me one book,Songwriters on Songwriting, and it was heartening to read that songwriters often feel like they don't know how to begin or where they're going. I also read the Clarissa Estes book Women Who Run With The Wolves which helped me to write personal stuff - things that felt embarrassing to sing - and also enabled me to get beyond my own personal character and play with archetypes a little."  After a year of writing and recording back there Phillips went into an LA studio to finish Luck Or Magic with producer/mixer Eric Broucek (house engineer at DFA for five years working with LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy, the Juan Maclean and Eleanor Friedberger). He helped edit and re-arrange the existing recordings as well as adding live drums and re-recording many of the existing vocals and other instruments. Britta Phillips was 21 when she was cast as the singing voice of the cartoon character, Jem, lead singer of the fictitious Jem & the Holograms. In 1988 she co-starred in the guilty-pleasure comedy film Satisfaction about an all-girl rock band. The film features Julia Roberts (in her first big-screen appearance) and Justine Bateman. After the film's release, Britta co-founded the real-life shoegaze band The Belltower, who moved to London and released one album and a handful of EPs before breaking up in 1996. After a short stint playing bass with Ben Lee, Britta joined Luna in 1999, met her future husband, Dean Wareham, and made three albums with the band (she is still a member). The couple have recorded several albums as Dean & Britta and are active scoring films, notably The Squid & the Whaleand and Mistress America for Noah Baumbach. Luck or Magic is her first solo album. Photo Credit: Luz Gallardo    Tracklisting:      Daydream       Do It Last       One Fine Summer Morning (Evie Sands - 1969)       Million Dollar Doll       Drive (The Cars - 1984)       Fallin' In Love (Dennis Wilson - 1970)       Luck or Magic       Landslide (Fleetwood Mac - 1975)       Wrap Your Arms Around Me (Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA - 1983)       Ingrid Superstar