Vera Sola shares new single ‘Desire Path’

VERA SOLA SHARES NEW SINGLE ‘DESIRE PATH’, FIRST NEW MUSIC IN FOUR YEARS

ANNOUNCES SIGNING TO CITY SLANG

“An utterly singular talent”
Sunday Times ‘Breaking Act’

“A unique talent”
9/10 The Line of Best Fit

“A quite extraordinary songwriting talent”
4/5 Mojo

“Vera Sola twists the singer-songwriter rulebook in fascinating directions”
DIY

Listen to ‘Desire Path’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeP2y4Vi44Q

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Vera Sola has today returned with her first new music since her debut album Shades in the form of her new single ‘Desire Path’. She has also today announced that she’s signed to City Slang.

Vera Sola has never fit any mould or followed in any footsteps—not even those of her own making. Her newest release blows out the walls of what she’d established before. Where debut album Shades was made almost entirely alone, ‘Desire Path’ was co-produced with Kenneth Pattengale, and recorded in Nashville with over a dozen contributing musicians. It marks a dramatic shift from the shadowy, enclosed nature of her first recordings, to a sweeping new sonic landscape. As a result, her unique vision and sound is now fully realised with renewed focus on her remarkable voice.

Speaking of the track Vera Sola says:

“I wrote this after screwing up a Brenda Lee song I’d been teaching myself to play one insomniac’s morning. The twisting chords laid out a story of awakening to compounded delusion, denial, despair.

The simplest way to describe it is a descent, or even better, an ascent into madness. Imagine a 60’s ballad, aggravated.

A scattershot of key changes and ratcheting modulations, I knew from first blush it required very specific strings. 13 violins drifting, moment by moment, more and more out of tune only for a madman’s synth to break through the soundscape, take over the melody and run it into the ground. The string section was the last thing we recorded in person before lockdown.

It’s the centerpiece of something big and bold which has been gestating for a long, long time.”

Revisit Vera Sola’s interview with Loud and Quiet here:
https://www.loudandquiet.com/interview/vera-sola-paranormal-poetry-and-saloon-tunes-from-a-true-american-history/

Photo credit: Ebru Yildiz

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