Kate Bollinger has released ‘To Your Own Devices’, the second offering from her forthcoming debut LP Songs From a Thousand Frames of Mind. Following the previously unveiled ‘Any Day Now’, the track comes paired with a video co-directed by Bollinger and Nikki Milan Houston. Check it out below.
“In May of 2023, my friends Al, Parker (Essential Forever and Good Dog Nigel respectively) and I decided to each try and write a song a day,” Bollinger said of the new single. “This is one that I wrote at that time. We recorded it on the third day of the album sessions in the Catskills, live to tape, and without headphones.”
About the video, she added:
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I came across a book of old Japanese designs called MOGA, a catchword meaning ‘modern girls’ that was used to describe fashionable city women who embraced westernized modes and manners in the 1920s. In the book I found a surrealist design that depicted a woman, underwater with fish swimming around her, wearing a beautiful costume, and stirring a giant fish bowl like a pot of soup and I knew immediately that I wanted to recreate the scene for the album cover. I wrote a script for the music video and brought in filmmaker Nikki Milan Houston as my co-director and set designer. We brought in Odie Summers as set fabricator and in a friend’s studio downtown, a kitchen set was built over several days and came to life because of the distinctive skills and devotion of everyone involved.
Songs From a Thousand Frames of Mind will be released on September 27 via Ghostly International.
