THE PORTABLE INFINITE: Mindy Gledhill Shares New Video For 'The Edge Of The World' - New Album The Phone Booth Sessions Vol. 1

7/09/2024

Mindy Gledhill Shares New Video For 'The Edge Of The World' - New Album The Phone Booth Sessions Vol. 1 - Out Sept. 17

Mindy Gledhill Shares New Video For 'The Edge Of The World'

New Album The Phone Booth Sessions Vol. 1 - Out Sept. 17

July 9, 2024 - New York, NY/Provo, UT: Mindy Gledhill shares a new video today for 'The Edge Of The World.' The song is inspired by a favorite childhood escape and the minimal production of fingerpicked guitar and strings highlight her unique voice. Of the track, Gledhill says: "Is there a safe place in your mind where you can go to meet your inner child? Mine is “The Edge of the World”—a literal ledge at the top of “Fickle Hill” in Eureka, CA where I grew up. When I was a child, my high school aged siblings would go there at night with their friends to lay on the ledge and watch the stars or throw rocks over the drop-off. Ironic how the safety of being in the company of the ones you love and look up to can erase the fear of standing over a drop-off in the dark."

The accompanying clip recaptures youthful hazy summer days and the production was a family affair, directed by Gledhill's son. He also co-wrote the track. She explains: "This song was a co-write with my son, Jackson Gledhill. I was still a teenager when I found out I was expecting him. It was a really terrifying time for me. I felt like I was standing at the edge of everything I knew, with a drop-off right below me, but moving forward with a leap of faith was the only choice I had. There was no going back. So this song feels like a full circle moment to now be on the other side of that experience. He’s all grown up and helping me write and even produce this track. He recently started dabbling in cinematography and vintage cameras. So it only seemed fitting to have him film and direct the footage for this music video. We did it on the hillside behind our house. We literally live on a steep hill that overlooks our town. There is a safety here on the edge, with a big picture view that seems counterintuitive. But then again, most of our biggest breakthroughs are closer than we think.”

'The Edge Of The World' is the new single taken from her forthcoming album The Phone Booth Sessions Vol. 1 and follows 'Pleased To Meet Me' which has already racked up nearly 200k plays on YouTube in just a few weeks. The Phone Booth Sessions Vol. 1 will be released via her own Blue Morph Label on September 17. This is Gledhill's seventh full-length LP as well as the first she shares a co-producer credit on.

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The Phone Booth Sessions Vol. 1 is the follow up to 2019's Rabbit Hole, a collection of songs about Gledhill's decision to leave the Mormon faith. This album sees her on the other side of that experience and addressing her inner child, a series of love songs to herself, all inspired by a vintage phone booth she found in a thrift store that ultimately served as a recording booth for her vocals.

“I’ve spent the last decade deconstructing the psychological effects of the high control religion I was raised in. This new chapter is one of “reconstruction” from the ground up – starting with my inner child. One day, after a therapy session where my therapist introduced the concept of “Inner child work” to me, I happened to stop in at an antique store on my way home. I walked past an old phone booth. Like electricity, the idea came to me – “What if I converted that phone booth into a vocal booth, to call up my younger self and record songs for her that embodied the messages she always needed to hear?” So I did just that, and concept for ‘The Phone Booth Sessions’ was born."

Mindy Gledhill is a Utah based singer, songwriter and producer as well as the founder and owner of “The Forge Collective” – a historic building in Provo, UT where creatives in different artistic mediums rent studio spaces. Her vocals are showcased on Kaskade’s Grammy-nominated album Fire & Ice including the Global Smash single 'Eyes.' Gledhill's music is featured on primetime TV (So You Think You Can Dance, Bones, 20/20, Dancing with the Stars, The Good Wife, The Village, The Sex Lives of College Girls) in addition to an Olympic ad campaign for Fruit of the Loom and a Super Bowl commercial for State Farm. She had a #1 single in Korea, sold-out tours in Japan and the U.S. and has sung with everything from EDM giants to bluegrass revivalists (The Lower Lights) to symphony orchestras (The Teton Chamber Orchestra.)