{"id":16841,"date":"2022-03-21T21:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=16841"},"modified":"2022-03-21T21:03:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T21:03:31","slug":"alice-austin-flies-expertly-across-genres-to-create-a-tantalizing-listen-on-her-new-album-goodnight-euphoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/alice-austin-flies-expertly-across-genres-to-create-a-tantalizing-listen-on-her-new-album-goodnight-euphoria\/","title":{"rendered":"ALICE AUSTIN Flies Expertly Across Genres to Create a Tantalizing Listen on Her New Album GOODNIGHT EUPHORIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ALICE AUSTIN<\/strong>\u00a0is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who showcases a full spectrum of stylistic leanings on her new album\u00a0GOODNIGHT EUPHORIA<\/em><\/strong>. Set for release April 22, 2022,\u00a0GOODNIGHT EUPHORIA<\/em>\u00a0is \u201ca wild ride\u201d as described by producer\u00a0David Drouin<\/strong>, from the retro-alternative opening track\u00a0\u201cNo Such Thing,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0to the surfy vibe in\u00a0\u201cThe Neighborhood,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0to the spaghetti western riffs in\u00a0\u201cThe Ward.\u201d<\/strong>

Rich with layered instrumentation, this second full-length album from ALICE AUSTIN was artfully mixed and mastered by\u00a0Timothy Phillips<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0Mercy Sound Studios<\/strong>. Besides being a melodic guitar-based rock album,\u00a0GOODNIGHT EUPHORIA<\/em>\u00a0features a diverse collection of performances from\u00a0Seth Campbell<\/strong>\u00a0(mellotron and piano),\u00a0Emily Garcia<\/strong>\u00a0(violin), and\u00a0Jon Persson<\/strong>\u00a0(trumpet). The lyrical content of this collection of songs aims to be easy listening on the surface, with a depth that reaches out to its audience if they are willing to dive deeply into some pretty heavy messages about the love and the laws of physics, haunted guitars, mental illness, suicide, and telepathic communication.

Born in Vermont and currently living in Los Angeles, ALICE AUSTIN has written and performed hundreds of songs throughout her musical life. In addition to her solo career, she fronts\u00a0Black Sabbitch<\/strong>, the Ozzy-endorsed all female Black Sabbath. She was also a founding member and songwriter of Vermont\u2019s all female pop punk band\u00a0Zola Turn<\/strong>\u00a0in the early 2000\u2019s, and later\u00a0Queen Tangerine<\/strong>\u00a0and Boston\u2019s\u00a0The Lavas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To create her second full-length solo album, ALICE AUSTIN reached back to her New England roots and combined forces with Boston producer and musician David Drouin, who also plays guitar, bass, and sings backing vocals on the release. The inspiration for\u00a0GOODNIGHT EUPHORIA<\/em>\u00a0came about after Austin sang backing vocals on Drouin\u2019s production of the Cold Engines single\u00a0\u201cOne of Us Now,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0and the collaboration was so natural that Austin asked him to record a single with her.\u00a0\u201cThe Ward\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0was their first completed song that set off an unstoppable momentum leading to 11 other tracks all written, produced, and recorded remotely within the next few months. As Alice was on tour with Black Sabbitch, she was also composing, writing lyrics, and listening to mixes of\u00a0GOODNIGHT EUPHORIA<\/em>\u00a0tracks.

Alice Austin’s music career has taken her from her native Vermont to her adoptive Los Angeles–and nearly every place in between. Material she recorded and co-wrote with previous groups such as Boston incarnation The Lavas (2006-2009) and Vermont\u2019s earliest all-female 90s powerhouse Zola Turn (Brick Red Records, 2000-2002) draws on a vast corpus including retro garage icons such as Shocking Blue and Jefferson Airplane, a peppering of 90s indie rock artist PJ Harvey, and the twangy delights of vintage country queen Wanda Jackson.

Her solo work also embraces these influences as she moves from country to indie to rock and back again on her self-produced and self-engineered debut album\u00a0To A Star in the Yard<\/em><\/strong>, followed by her\u00a0Left One in the Rain EP<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0produced by\u00a0Patrick Avalon<\/strong>, her singles\u00a0\u201cCowboy Summer\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cDirt and Helicopters\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(both produced by\u00a0Robb Torres<\/strong>), and her two most recent self-produced singles\u00a0\u201cCirrus\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cLookout Mountain.\u201d<\/strong>

Many fans know ALICE AUSTIN as the lead singer of Black Sabbitch \u2013 a band with exactly one musical influence but a complex creative agenda: to embody the authenticity of formative 1970s metal, making blatant it\u2019s latent feminine swagger by crowning themselves \u201cthe all-female Black Sabbath.\u201d According to\u00a0The New Times<\/strong>, Black Sabbitch is \u201credefining the cover band.\u201d While touring with Black Sabbitch brings Alice all over North America and Europe to express the most extroverted and raucous aspects of her personality, her solo career continues to satisfy an intimate artistic expression that has only deepened through the polarity of her experiences.

The ALICE AUSTIN single \u201cNo Such Thing\u201d is available digitally on March 25, 2022, followed by the release of her new album\u00a0GOODNIGHT EUPHORIA<\/em>\u00a0on April 22, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To order or stream GOODNIGHT EUPHORIA please visit: https:\/\/smarturl.it\/AAGoodnightEuphoria<\/a>
To order or stream the ALICE AUSTIN single \u201cNo Such Thing\u201d please visit: https:\/\/smarturl.it\/AAustinNoSuchThing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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