Sarah Mary Chadwick Shares “Take Me Out To a Bar” + Various Asses Remix | LP out 4/4, Kill Rock Stars

Sarah Mary Chadwick Shares New Single “Take Me Out To a Bar” with “Take Me Out To a Bar” (Various Asses Remix) Available across platforms here New Album, Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? due out April 4 on Kill Rock Stars Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? pre-order “ …like the missing link between PJ Harvey and Daniel Johnston” - Rolling Stone "'Shitty Town' is a howling barroom anthem for nihilists and unrepentant fuck-ups" - Pitchfork, track review "The depth of feeling in the song is only made more powerful via Chadwick’s quavering vocal delivery" - Paste "it’s songs like Shitty Town that make you hope she’ll continue on this path forever – few other singer-songwriters currently working can write with such gut-wrenching clarity." - The Guardian

Photo Credit: Sarah Mary Chadwick  Born in New Zealand of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Pākehā descent and currently based in Naarm/Melbourne, producer, songwriter, vocalist and visual artist, Sarah Mary Chadwick unveils "Take Me Out To a Bar" alongside a vibrant remix by Filipino artist Various Asses today. This is the second preview single off her ninth studio album Take Me To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? due out April 4 on Kill Rock Stars. The elegantly ethereal new song unfolds like a great short story: a self-contained, sunken universe of one-sided desire. The narrator studies her lone reflection in a bar mirror where her lover's face had floated beside hers before — a man she has to plead with to make love to her in a variety of locations other than home as he belongs to someone else. The contemplative lyrics express a relatable tale of turbulent young love while learning one’s worth and boundaries. Listen / Share: “Take Me Out To a Bar” + “Take Me Out To a Bar” (Various Asses remix) Each of Chadwick's records marks a moment in time. This new collection signals the beginnings of control and self-renovation. Words written unconsciously that are always five steps ahead of her own actual awareness. After a lifetime of alcohol use disorder, she got sober immediately after recording this record. ”I can hear it,” says Chadwick. “The desolate desire for change, the goodbyes, the fading romance, the memories. And the pain- that’s different but that never leaves, it’s part of me.” Chadwick knows what the right song — or the wrong song — can do to a room. And Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? marks a deliberate pivot. This new devastating record seems to emanate from a dive bar jukebox. Something that can survive, fulfill its purpose, comfort or delight while fearlessly beckoning listeners into her sunken universe. Intended to be less demanding for the listener, “something that you can dip in and out of, phrases that tilt the room for a moment but allow space for the listener to inhabit or leave”, with an abject awareness that “last call” is approaching. This new collection pivots like a broken lullaby around stop-you-in-your-tracks lyrics and a low lit bar. Glasses tinkling, smoky scattered laughter and the banal becoming beautiful as the pianist creates the mood, anonymous and as romantic as a streetlight under the gentle ebbs and flows of intimate chatter.  Chadwick sees Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I,Gatsby? as the elegant-aspiring sibling of ‘the tantrum record’ Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby, 2021. Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? was co-produced by Chadwick and Chris Townend at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art's Frying Pan Studios. To create the dreamy and cinematic feel of the record, Townend screwed contact mics to the piano’s body, played the entire album back through it with the sustain pedal held down by a sandbag, and recorded that resonating, a natural reverb — close, claustral, — that cradles each song the way a music box shelters its melody. “These days the most  punk thing you can do is be resourceful,” Chadwick shrugs, “Making choices is free.”

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