After playing around NYC in groups like May Rio and fantasy of a broken heart, Kelsea Feder will release her debut album, Sunk Cost Fantasy, as Blums, out Aug. 7 via Take Care Records. The first single, “Sinking/Soaring,” replicated the atmosphere of a sultry jazz club, calling back to her time as a hostess at one. Her latest, “Cashout,” takes a different turn, embracing off-kilter electro pop with the same care and expanse.
“I came home from a night with a guy during which I had a pretty unpleasant memory pop up and wig me out,” she explains. “It unlocked a lot of unpleasant memories/anger during what was supposed to be a sexy, fun time, and I wanted to turn it into a celebration of catharsis. This song also points a lot to repeated patterns and how we find ourselves back inside of what we’re trying to get away from. I walked manically around Maria Hernandez Park for a couple of hours when we were close to being done and wrote layers of vocal parts that all go over each other at the end of the song.”
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Its visual, choreographed by Matilda Sakamoto, revels in constant motion, centered on a “fever dream Coyote Ugly bar dance sequence interspersed with knife flipping on the side of the road where I grew up in South Jersey. The song deals with uncomfortable memories and feeling stuck, so I wanted to turn the video into a fantasy/celebration of the anger to express what couldn’t be in a previously frozen state.” See for yourself below.
Blums – Sunk Cost Fantasy tracklisting
- “Intro”
- “Still”
- “Sinking/Soaring”
- “Salty”
- “Celsius”
- “Side of the Road”
- “Cashout”
- “Triple A (as a healer)”
- “Judy”
- “Further Away”
- “Unspent”
