Award-winning singer-songwriter-guitarist Sarah King makes her long-awaited full-length solo debut with When It All Goes Down, exploring life’s seismic shifts via her own singular strain of Gothic Americana. The album will drop on March 29th.
Produced, engineered, and arranged by David Baron (The Lumineers, Noah Kahan, Darren Kiely), When It All Goes Down sees King weaving classic rock ‘n’ roll, Southern soul, true country, and primal folk-blues into something inspiring and cathartic, deeply personal yet wholly universal.
Shot through with subtle swing and heavy horsepower, a current of white-knuckle tension roils just beneath the surface of When It All Goes Down, with King deftly navigating the hidden spaces between darkness and the light.
Today Glide is offering an exclusive premiere of King’s new single “Pretty Things.” With its Americana-noir sound, the song finds King laying down ominous vocals over sparse and haunting guitar as the tension slowly builds. This slow-burning “reverse murder ballad by a woman” finds King showcasing her vocals alongside her lyrical craft as she weaves a tale to make for the kind of song that feels like it could be the theme of True Detective. The wavy synths also add to the mystique and give the song an otherworldly tone.
King describes the inspiration behind the song:
I actually wrote Pretty Things for my 2021 EP, The Hour, but it didn’t make the cut. I originally intended for it to be a faster-paced song (after being told I needed some “less brooding” material), but the song never quite felt right. One night, I slowed the tempo way down, to match the incredibly dark lyrics, and this groovy, swampier version finally landed. I brought it back to the studio, and it really worked this time. Lyrically, it’s a little unhinged – another reverse murder ballad by a woman, but this time, she’s killed the intended listener’s partner in order to have the listener to herself. I don’t actually encourage murder in real life, but I think we’ve all wanted to get someone out of the picture at some point so we could have someone all to ourselves.
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