WAR OF BEACH DISCONNECTION PLEASE RELOAD FREE
The project of Oakland-based songwriter Taylor Vick, Boy Scouts burst onto the scene back in 2019 with the critically acclaimed album, Free Company. One hand on the steering wheel and the other sewing a garden is out September 24th via Saddle Creek. damn is a hugely affecting piece of music and serves as further evidence that the return of Ada Lea might just be the break-out moment she so richly deserves. As the track comes to a close, the words become an angry list of everything that seems wrong at that moment in time, “damn the work, damn the music, damn the fun that’s missing”, she sings, and on, and on Alexandra’s list goes, a spiral of small rages turning to a furious inferno. Musically the track seems to have a certain 70s sheen, an expansive AOR classic in the mould of Fleetwood Mac or The War On Drugs, melded with the rich honesty of Alexandra’s sparkling songwriting.
The track focuses on, “a cursed New Year’s eve party”, Alexandra trying to make sense of the excess of substance and sadness, “feelings come then they go someplace, little high big lows, in any case, a good friend is a good friend, no doubt, but sometimes a good friend ain’t enough to grab ya and pull you out”.
The record is consciously split across the four different seasons, and despite it being the middle of summer for us Northern Hemisphere dwellers, damn is rooted very much in the winter section. That record, one hand on the steering wheel and the other sewing a garden, is out in September through Saddle Creek, and this week Ada Lea has shared the second offering from it, damn. That was the first material since last year’s women, here EP, and as we now know the first taster of her upcoming second album. Last month Ada Lea, the musical moniker of Alexandra Levy, featured on these pages with her excellent comeback single Hurt.
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