Katy Kirby has released the deluxe edition of her critically acclaimed album Blue Raspberry via ANTI- Records. It features two additional tracks, ‘Headlights‘ and ‘Naperville‘, which harness her tongue-in-cheek turns of phrase, wall-of-sound-level distortion and contemplations on queer desire.; listen to it here. To mark the deluxe album’s release, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has launched Kirby’s #LateShowMeTheMusic performance of ‘Hand to Hand‘ as well. Directed by Hannah Welever and shot in black and white at the same church her video for the track ‘Table‘ was filmed, watch Katy and her band tenderly perform the track below.
Released in January of this year, Blue Raspberry received praise from Pitchfork, MOJO, Stereogum, Uncut, Paste, Dork, Clash, NPR, The Observer, Uproxx, The Line of Best Fit, FLOOD, Loud and Quiet, The I and more, with the Associated Press explaining that “she savours bits and pieces of the relationship in which she realised her queerness … lyrics are carefully crafted to highlight the little things her partner does in her appearance to impress, something that women recognise in other women.”
Buy Blue Raspberry (deluxe) here: https://katykirby.ffm.to/blueraspberrydlx
Photo credit – Tonje Thilesen