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PRAISE FOR KYLIE V:"Kylie V, the indie folk sensation known for their devastatingly honest lyrics and operatic vocal range" - PSB" Kylie Van Slyke’s new single is an honest take on life and just how she goes through it. She wrote it show show love to friends. But Kylie V doesn’t stop there. She sings of tough lessons learned, and acknowledges how life can be a lot." - Riff Magazine" Crafting a luscious world laden with themes of growing up and discovering yourself, Kylie V is a force to be reckoned with" - Americana Highways" We’ve all been in that space where we’re processing a broken heart and a feeling of abandonment. Kylie V offers a fresh take on that overwhelming pain, in a slow paced song of thoughtful, reflective rumination" - Earmilk" Because impossibly lovely doesn’t quite do “Wish I Was in Bed” justice, let’s instead go with something a little more evocative like mind-bendingly beautiful. " - Georgia Straight"Kylie V demonstrates a keen ability for baring their innermost thoughts and feelings courageously. It’s an aptitude that is sure to find them a loyal audience."- The Permanent Rain Press"The album brims with poetic, twilit imagery: birds hum and swim in levees. Luminous full moons hang over bodies of water. Mountains stand tall like a faraway nearby."- Exclaim!"Transitioning from a bonafide live music superfan, Kylie V is now pursuing their artistic passion, gracing these very grassroots locations with their haunting melodies and heartfelt performances."- Range |
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Today, Kylie V releases "Crash Test Plane". Van Slyke leans further into their country influences on "Crash Test Plane," a song that embodies the album's themes of "putting all of your energy and effort into something and then watching it explode in front of you and then realizing it’s actually totally fine because you didn’t die" in its lyrics as well as its development: Nearly scrapped, the song went through seven iterations before taking on its final shape.
Kylie on the track, "Crash Test Plane" is probably the oldest song on the album, and one that went through many different versions to get to its final dreamy alt-country form. This song, to me, has always been about making peace with something heavy. Letting go of a burden and/or recognizing it shaped you. Whether that is meant to symbolize attachment wounds, generational trauma, mental health struggles, or something entirely different, is ever changing." |
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Crash Test Plane is the sophomore album from Vancouver-based indie singer/songwriter Kylie V, and their first with storied Toronto label Royal Mountain Records. Crash Test Plane plays like flipping through their diary—an earnest, introspective, honest record full of yearning, poetic emotion, and life lessons. Kylie’s strong vocals, pitch-perfect and haunting, float over intricately assembled instrumentals produced by Josh Eastman on this heart-wrenching addition to the Canadian indie canon. They naturally and seamlessly blend tender indie folk with bright bubblegrunge and twinges of alt-country, vividly illustrating the complexities of life, love, loss, and ennui in ways that are both uniquely personal and universally resonant. |
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TRACKLISTING:- Okanagan Peach
- Runaway
- Golden
- Lucky Streak
- Anomaly
- Crash Test Plane
- Year of the Rabbit
- Catherine
- Wish I Was In Bed
- Swimming Pool
- Song in Open D
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Kylie V BIO:
When it comes to navigating the path to adulthood, there's no flight plan. You have to try things, make mistakes, and learn from them. As singer-songwriter Kylie Van Slyke -- better known under their stage name Kylie V. -- puts it when talking about their second album Crash Test Plane, "I’m 20 years old. I’ve watched so many things in my life happen to me that I thought were going to be the absolute end, and a week after each of those I’m like, 'Oh my god, I’m fine.'" This kind of self-awareness may seem rare in such a young artist, but like Conor Oberst, Samia, and Christian Lee Hutson before them, Van Slyke's version of indie folk pairs lived-in storytelling with an unmistakable knack for soul-baring. Starting at age 14, Van Slyke wrote songs and played local shows in Vancouver, sparking a creative outpouring that led to self-managing their career, the release of their acclaimed 2021 debut album Big Blue, and signing to Royal Mountain Records. Just how much their music has evolved on Crash Test Plane is evident on songs like "Runaway," where they confront the terror of "falling in love for real for the first time" with caressing sounds and imagery that's downright gory ("What if I regret it and you leave me with a gaping wound?"). "Saying brutally honest, borderline gross lyrics is something that can be so beautiful and personal to me," Van Slyke explains. Though plenty of Crash Test Plane's songs deal with the fallout of falling in love, the singer/songwriter is just as unflinchingly honest about mental health and career goals on the flowing "Golden" and self-sabotage on the ambling warmth of "Song in Open D." Van Slyke pays homage to a dear friend on "Catherine" ("the only truly wholesome and tender song on the album"), which is apt, since friendship provided the bedrock for Crash Test Plane's musical growth. Working with producer/multi-instrumentalist Josh Eastman -- another close friend -- made them feel ready to take risks: "Making this album felt so good. There’s a lot of trust needed for making music with somebody, but especially for me because it’s so personal." That intimacy is heightened by Crash Test Plane's polished-yet-rustic sound. "There’s something about assembling a song entirely from actual instruments, like guitar, mandolin, bass, drums, and violin that just feels really natural and beautiful," Van Slyke says. Playing guitar, banjo, mandolin and bass themself, they're backed by drummer Jess Jones, violinist Tegan Walhgren, trumpeter Gregory Dent, and pedal steel guitarist Alexander Dobson, who lends a late-summer glow to songs such as "Okanagan Peach" and "Year of the Rabbit." Van Slyke leans further into their country influences on "Crash Test Plane," a song that embodies the album's themes of "putting all of your energy and effort into something and then watching it explode in front of you and then realizing it’s actually totally fine because you didn’t die" in its lyrics as well as its development: Nearly scrapped, the song went through seven iterations before taking on its final shape. Van Slyke deftly blends rock and pop elements ("it just feels like different ways of speaking the same language to me") on "Lucky Streak" and "Wish I Was in Bed," a "gay Sheryl Crow song" that they wrote while getting ready to go to somewhere they didn't want to go. There may not be a designated route to growing up and discovering yourself, but on Crash Test Plane, it's a thrilling, moving journey. |
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