Connie Lovatt shares new single, "Kid," featuring Bill Callahan

Connie Lovatt shares new single, "Kid," featuring Bill Callahan

Coconut Mirror is due on Sept. 27 on Enchanté / Chickfactor

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Today Connie Lovatt, known mostly for her work in Containe, her project with Fontaine Toups of Versus, and her previous band The Pacific Ocean, shares the second single from her new album, Coconut Mirror. "Kid" is a duet with Bill Callahan and you can stream it HERE

 

On the album, Lovatt is backed up by a dream team of musicians:

 

James McNew (Yo La Tengo)

Jim White (Dirty Three)

Rebecca Cole (Pavement / The Minders)

Phoebe Gittins 

Max Tepper (The Natural History)

Che Chen (75 Dollar Bill)

Lucy LaForge (Lucy & La Mer)

Bill Callahan (Smog)

James Baluyut (Versus, Plus/Minus)

Hartley Nandan (Connie's kid!)

 

Connie Lovatt grew up in St. Thomas and has lived in New York and Los Angeles. She previously made music with Containe, The Pacific Ocean, Alkaline, and Smog. Coconut Mirror is a family record and a love letter/life guide to her daughter—full of carefully constructed songs about drownings, cockfights, the ocean, happiness, drug dealers, poverty, heartache and love—written over the past decade or more in Silver Lake/Los Feliz and Wellington. Because of time and space and COVID, the musicians who play on the album recorded their own parts and sent them in to Connie, who worked with Joe Wohlmuth on crafting her solo singer-songwriter debut into a beautiful whole with some of the music world’s most sparkling gems playing on it.

“Everyone that I’ve loved is in this record. Everyone that matters—women, men, they’re all in there somewhere ... I wanted to show my daughter that I could still make something after giving birth. I wanted to make a record with acoustic guitar where I’m telling my daughter all the stories that mattered to me.” — Connie Lovatt

About "Kid":

"Early on when I was starting to write the melodies, I was trying to think what the purpose of all of this was and I realized I was fumbling toward the stories I wanted to tell Hartley. It gave me a framework, telling Hartley certain yarns, certain sagas or fairy tales. She could always have these songs. It felt like a noble thing to try and create. I centered the song on her arrival. And us deciding to name her after my dad, a family name. I wanted this to be a song that let her know how magical she made everything. How she came into my life, during a strange period, being in a very new state, both geographically and mentally and incorporating her as lovingly as we could into our family, even though I felt so far away from my own. Creating a new family shifts everything, for a long while things get cosmic, out of control, and elemental. I tried to write that. It grew into the duet of the year."

Photo below: Connie Lovatt in Carrboro, NC, 2023; photo: Gail O’Hara

 

Connie Lovatt
Coconut Mirror
(Enchanté / Chickfactor)
Release Date: Sept. 27 2023
Pre-order HERE

Track List:

Gull 
Kid
Heart 
Basin 
Snow
Lines
Broke
Honest
Sisters 
Sleep 
Zodiac

CONNIE LOVATT LINKS:

Chickfactor
Bandcamp