Katy Kirby is releasing the deluxe edition of her critically acclaimed album Blue Raspberry which features two additional tracks, ‘Headlights’ and ‘Naperville’, which harness her tongue-in-cheek turns of phrase, wall-of-sound-level distortion and contemplations on queer desire.; listen to it HERE.
“‘Headlights’ isn’t as open-hearted as any of the songs that ended up on ‘Blue Raspberry’,” Kirby explains. “We could call it an ode to the cumulative, low-level suffering that accompanies all human life 😉 Or we could just say that it’s kind of a bratty little ballad about being fucking tired, you know?”
Released in January of this year, Blue Raspberry received praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste, NPR, No Depression, Uproxx, FLOOD and more, with the Associated Press explaining that “she savors bits and pieces of the relationship in which she realized her queerness … lyrics are carefully crafted to highlight the little things her partner does in her appearance to impress, something that women recognize in other women.”
Praise for Katy Kirby
“Kirby’s best writing shows off her talent for contracting abstract ideas into the kinds of pithy lines that inspire furious underlining.” – Pitchfork
“To spend the time with ‘Blue Raspberry’ is to be totally broken apart by it, but like Kirby, eventually pieced back together, ready to jump in again.” –No Depression
“Part of what sets Kirby apart is the language sheuses;the way words slip off her tongue in syllables almost too big for the songs that contain them. As a narrator, Kirby is clever and knows it.”
–Stereogum, Album of the Week
“She has a Dorothy Parker sting to her lyrics” -Ann Powers, NPR Music
‘Blue Raspberry (Deluxe)’
1. Redemption Arc
2. Fences
3. Cubic Zirconia
4. Hand to Hand
5. Wait Listen
6. Drop Dead
7. Party of the Century
8. Alexandria
9. Salt Crystal
10. Blue Raspberry
11. Table
12. Headlights
13. Naperville
