Alaska Reid Announces Debut Album ‘Disenchanter’: Hear “Back To This”

It’s been an enchanting run for Alaska Reid. After I first encountered the LA-based Montana native’s music seven years in the past, she was making moody guitar-powered alt-rock with the band Alyeska. Since going solo in 2019, her music has taken a poppier, extra artificial flip whereas sustaining the identical twilit, diaristic vibe. By the tip of 2020 she was working with elite producers A. G. Cook dinner and Rodaidh McDonald. Now comes information that she co-produced her debut album with Cook dinner, the PC Music ringleader and hyperpop pioneer.

That album, Disenchanter, is coming in July by way of Gorilla vs. Bear’s Luminelle label, a subsidiary of Fats Possum. It’s stated to attract from nation, grunge, and easygoing California rock as filtered by means of Cook dinner’s signature digital eccentricity. Lead single “Again To This,” which arrives at present with a video by Santiago Cendejas, is a misty, prismatic pop-rock tune that accommodates glimmers of all that however principally goes down clean. “Working by means of these goals,” Reid sings on the refrain. “I wanna return to this.” In response to Reid, it’s impressed by a time when she encountered a bunch of service staff on a break whereas mountaineering within the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness:

It was late summer time and so they seemed joyful and dusty. It was like a painted reverie from a classical portray. I fantasize about different individuals’s lives, different individuals’s professions, and writing is a approach I can approximate what it should be wish to be another person. So this tune is about stumbling upon a scene in another person’s life and eager to be part of it, nevertheless it’s additionally about questioning if I ever appeared as cool or as worthy as these smokejumpers did. I additionally had this concept of trying again at a photograph and questioning why, on the time, I didn’t really feel just like the model of myself trying again within the photograph.

Watch under.

TRACKLIST:
01 “French Fries”
02 “Canines & Women”
03 “She Wonders”
04 “Leftover”
05 “Palomino”
06 “Again To This”
07 “Arctic Coronary heart”
08 “All the time”
09 “Seeds”
10 “Airship”

Disenchanter is out 7/14 on Luminelle.