Alaska Reid is this week’s guest on The FADER Interview podcast. Speaking to The FADER’s Walden Green, the singer-songwriter from Los Angeles by way of Montana shared some words of wisdom courtesy of Speedy Ortiz‘s Sadie Dupuis: “She said something really interesting to me that I hadn’t heard someone say: ‘I’m building upon my past work and enriching it.’” On Reid’s debut album Disenchanter, out this Friday (July 14) via Luminelle, she enriches the groundwork she’s laid before — her guitar-forward indie rock outfit Alyeska, the glitch-pop of 2020’s A.G.
Cook-produced Big Bunny — to yield her most complete body of work yet. Read Next: Alaska Reid’s “Palomino” is a time capsule to ’80s Hollywood On Tuesday (July 11), Reid shared the fourth and final single from her new record. “French Fries,” is Disenchanter’s opening track, the kind of song that begs to be played over a car radio with the windows rolled down and volume cranked all the way up.
Once the beat kicks in, her insistent guitar strums and Cook’s cavernous production dovetail into a captivating approximation of ’80s heartland rock.
Through the music of John Mellencamp, Don Henley, and Bruce Springsteen circa Born in the U.S.A., Reid embraces the wide open spaces of her home state and a long-ignored instinct for gorgeous, catchy hooks. “For so long I thought it was a dirty thing to have a tightly structured song,” she said. “I’d be like, ‘Why?
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