LOLA KIRKE
Releases "Omens" Video
New Song Produced by Matthew E. White at Spacebomb Studios
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Photo credit: Lili Pepper
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"Rollicking and guitar-driven, overlaid with her lilting, smoky voice." - New York Times
"Showcases her husky, dusky voice on tunes that split the difference between Dusty-inspired blue-eyed soul and country rave-ups." - Rolling Stone
"[Lola Kirke] plant[s] one foot in confessional country music and the other in the weightless folk of Laurel Canyon." - Pitchfork
"Alluring yet rebellious." - Harper's Bazaar
"It's a Mazzy Star-meets-Lana Del Rey model of mood with touches of country kicked rhythms." -Austin Chronicle
"Contemporary, dreamy indie-pop and alt-country... reminiscent of heartbreak powerhouses like Angel Olsen, Jade Bird or Sharon Van Etten." - Paper
"Lovely and frayed folk-rock melodies." - Newsweek
"A dreamy, experimental Americana." - i-D
Lola Kirke has shared her brand-new single "Omens," alongside a glamorous Nathan Silver-directed video. "In this bizarre culture that largely gets love all wrong, I think we're taught to objectify the people we're romantically interested in, to assign to them magical qualities and make them into 'omens' so to speak," says Kirke. "This song is about the line between fantasy and reality, love and obsession, what's good for us and what's not so good for us. With it, as with all my songs, I hoped to reconcile my own weird shit, but also to construct a sort of prayer for a return to self: I don't want anyone else."
Clash, who premiered the video today, call "Omens" "a beautifully sculpted, deeply impressive slice of songwriting."
"Omens" is the second track Kirke recorded at the acclaimed producer Matthew E. White's Spacebomb Studios with the Spacebomb House Band (guitarist Alan Parker, pianist Daniel Clarke, bassist Cameron Ralston, drummer Pinson Chanselle). The first, a cover of Rick Danko's "Sip The Wine," is streaming everywhere.
Kirke's 2018 debut album Heart Head West is available HERE via 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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