October 21, 2021 – Today, Chrystabell announces the January 21 release of Midnight Star, her fifth studio album out via Love Conquered Records. Along with the announcement she shares “Breathe Into Euphoria,” a brightly kinetic debut single that speaks to the blissful ease of surrendering to transformation. The track was featured this morning via BlackBook, who said it “gleefully draws on the enduring tenets of ’80s synth-pop, landing ultimately somewhere between Kate Bush and Nina Hagen – yet also sounding somehow spot on for 2021,” and that it “hints at not only a new musical direction for her, but perhaps a whole new level of philosophical consciousness.”
Listen to “Breathe Into Euphoria” HERE.
“‘Breathe Into Euphoria’ is about savoring that taste, the moment a personal breakthrough has been achieved, no matter how seemingly small, letting it flood you, and building on it,” says Chrystabell. “It’s about easing up on the heaviness of life by being generous in acts of love for yourself and those around you.”
The Texas-based artist’s most visionary work yet, Midnight Star casts an indelible spell while radically magnifying our sense of possibility. Within the very first moments, Chrystabell fully transports the listener into a dimension of her own making, a sci-fi fantasia as rich and glittering as her mind itself. The album takes its title from its lead character, a beneficent being seeking to save humanity from life on a troubled Earth, and a collision of post-disco, synth-pop and space-age psychedelia create an otherworldly sound fitting of its fantastical narrative.
“Each song is an episode, a different lifetime for Midnight Star until she comes into the full realization of her potentiality,” explains Chrystabell. “It’s her hero’s journey, and my hope is that it might help others to open up to the divine, the erotic, the absurd, and everything else encapsulated in the work.”
Chrystabell is a hyper-creative polymath, whose past endeavors include four acclaimed albums, sold out performances around the world, a series of musical projects with filmmaker/luminary David Lynch and a central role on Twin Peaks: The Return. Having launched her career in the late-’90s with the neo-swing band 8 1/2 Souvenirs, she first joined forces with Lynch for a song featured in his 2006 film Inland Empire, and later worked with him on her 2011 album This Train and the 2016 EP Somewhere in the Nowhere. Over the past few years, she’s undergone a full-tilt liberation of her creative spirit that finds her embracing a more potent sense of freedom.
“With this project in particular, there was a distinct lack of self-imposed limitation on what was possible,” she says. “To a certain degree, I’d always had some idea of how I fit into the world of music—but in order for my art to have real integrity, I had to dismantle those ideas of whatever it was I thought I was supposed to be. Where I am now is so much less fragmented; I feel far more realized as an artist and a person, and that’s where this music was coming from.”
Midnight Star Tracklist
1. Midnight Star
2. Suicide Moonbeams
3. Breathe Into Euphoria
4. Love Confit
5. 2139
6. Love My Way
7. Pearls
8. Clouds For Breakfast
9. Red Green Blue
10. Silent Scream
11. Golden Sky
Photographer Credit: Mathieu Bitton
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