ivyaura
Balam Acab & Molly Shannon, Molly Shannon offshoot ivyaura presented us with their new single “Everything is New” (a single rocking the aliases Linda Fox on vocals & songwriting & Orabella Alora on production) that offers up an odd sense of hope for this unsettled era. News cycles cascade into a dreamland fantasia where everything genuinely feels bright & new like being welcomed into a newfound celestial dimension. Keys chime as the synthesizers climb upward like hikers making their way up a summit to reach goals as silver screen sweeps of melodies feel the air and rhythm structures spell out feelings that words themselves cannot contain. We give you a listen to the “OG mix” now:
For the Hollyweed mix of “Everything is New”, we are first treated to an extended introduction that heightens the excitement for a new underscored version of the same song for a new scene. With added vocal edits & some more gliding keys that rise & fall; the wonderland world of ivyaura continues to keep us interested at what’s next in the pipeline from this avant-pop project.
Michael & Alec introduced the new ivyaura single & remix with the following words:
Michael
I starting singing “Everything is New”, and humming the notes and changes into my phone at a gas pump somewhere between Portland and Seattle. I had been trying to write a song that would better lend itself to “ivyaura” than Scumbody, something with more spaces in it, and I thought I had found the one. I was laughing and talking into the bottom of my old phone, and singing the chorus.
The words to this one really haunt me. The middle of a song is literally a map out of Kansas. Probably not far enough out. I lived in the South and Midwest for a while, and I didn’t really like it. So, I think about it a lot. I imagined that if North Korea were ever going to shoot a missile over to the United States, they’d probably drop it on Texas or Kansas. The rest of the song is just me worried about why I think like this, and being worried for my friends.
Alec
EVERYTHING IS NEWWWWWW!
