"Wanted to go home" video still
Greatest Hits LISTEN: https://rubybell.lnk.to/greatesthitsID
“Wanted to go home” WATCH: https://youtu.be/RhRlOBaiEis
(September 13, 2024) - New York City-based Ruby Bell releases her debut EP Greatest Hits today via Dog Show Records. Produced by Dylan Brady (100 gecs), the six tracks of Greatest Hits introduce listeners to the playful and colorful world of Ruby Bell. Alongside the EP release, Ruby shares the video for the song “Wanted to go home,” which was directed by Iris Kim and features a cameo from Dylan Brady. Greatest Hits includes Ruby’s previously released singles “Love song” and “We were at the club,” the latter of which arrived with an Isa Castro-Cota-directed video and was described by The FADER as "catchy, euphoric, and completely on-the-fritz." To celebrate the EP, Ruby hosted a listening party at Le Pére in NYC last night where she performed the new songs and turned the clothing store into the club.
Speaking about her debut EP, Ruby shares, “‘Greatest Hits’ is a kind of collage. Pasting together different corners of my life and mind. Bubblegum pop, saw waves, internet obsessions, plastic dolls. It’s all there.”
Ruby Bell, the alias of Claire Montgomery, began her music journey as a child in Connecticut, where she would tinker in GarageBand, creating original songs and covers with her dad and sister. With a myriad of musical influences around her while growing up – Bruce Springsteen to Björk to Donna Summer to Young Thug – Ruby Bell’s gestation began. While studying counseling at Lesley University in Boston, her path toward the creation of Ruby Bell took a crucial turn. It was in Boston that she encountered a wider range of music, including the deeply influential PC Music oeuvre, and where she met two key figures in her musical coming-of-age, Happy Hardcore producers Replicator and Gupi. Following a string of impromptu sessions with Gupi, the artist introduced her to 100 gecs’ Dylan Brady. The Ruby Bell sound—at once playful and soothing—caught Brady’s attention. Between school and working at a daycare, the young artist wrote whenever she could, with newfound inspiration, finding and honing her voice. Ruby Bell’s story has only just begun.
Check out Greatest Hits above and stay tuned for more from Ruby Bell coming very soon. | 
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