Directed by Lane Rodges, the clip options Katy in puritanical garb as she sizes up a desk that represents the constraints she skilled being raised as a homeschooled evangelical Christian.

Reflecting on lead single “Desk”, Kirby says the track is “a thematic outlier on this file, and extra of a lighthearted leftover from my god-haunted previous life – it’s the final on the album and kind of serves as an epilogue or outro for the remainder of the songs. Most significantly it’s fairly enjoyable to sing.”

Whereas the songs on that file unfold amidst Kirby discovering her voice, Blue Raspberry is a refined and assured sophomore effort that deepens the query that bubbled all through Cool Dry Place: how can folks attain one another regardless of all of the hazard zones the place human connection caves in?

“This file is far more private than I meant it to be. I used to be in a interval of experimenting with how I write, and what got here out was a track a couple of lady, about an imagined her – I didn’t suppose I used to be writing as or about myself, however these sorts of songs saved popping out, with fragments of overlapping lyrics linking them collectively like beads on a string. They appeared to inhabit the identical world,” she says.

To underscore Blue Raspberry‘s lyrical themes, Kirby labored together with her band to develop a newly lush sonic palette replete with orchestral gestures organized by her good friend Rowen Merrill. “I felt like I used to be intending to put in writing love songs for the primary time. As soon as I realised they had been queer love songs and celebrating artificiality, I wished them to sound like they had been bidding for a spot within the wedding ceremony reception canon,” she says. “It was extra enjoyable to simply go for it than to attempt to restrain ourselves. Particularly if we had been simply accepting the truth that we had been attempting to make objectively lovely music, no matter which means.”

Tracklist:

1. Redemption Arc
2. Fences
3. Cubic Zirconia
4. Hand to Hand
5. Wait Pay attention
6. Drop Lifeless
7. Social gathering of the Century
8. Alexandria
9. Salt Crystal
10. Blue Raspberry
11. Desk