Madeline Kenney is releasing her sophomore album, Perfect Shapes, on Oct.5 via Carpark Records. Today, she’s shared the second single and album opener “Overhead.” Produced by Ben Sloan, it’s the only track on the album to not be produced by Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner.
“Lyrically, 'Overhead' is about the societal expectations of women to have children, my own grappling with those expectations, and considering the value and depth in my life without children,” explains Kenney. “For the video, I wanted to express that idea through the image of an arid, lofty, haunted house — not traditionally creepy, but moreso haunted by my own personal demons. The women dancers come in to exorcise those demons out, offset the heaviness, and call attention to the fact that a lot of us are having the same internal conversations.” Perfect Shapes follows last year’s Toro Y Moi-produced debut Night Night at the First Landing.
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It took losing her voice for Wye Oak to rediscover theirs. On the heels of their successful previous album, Civilian, the Baltimore duo were playing arenas, opening for acts like The National and The Decemberists. And then, sadly, frontwoman Jenn Wasner developed vocal-cord nodules, and under docto…
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