Crush Songs

In 2006, amid the hype surrounding Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Grammy-nominated album Show Your Bones, Karen O was experiencing a serious bout of songwriting sentimentality. “When I was 27, I crushed a lot,” she says of her new solo album, Crush Songs. “I wasn’t sure I’d ever fall in love again. These songs were written and recorded in private around this time. They are the soundtrack to what was an ever-continuing love crusade.” Recorded in 2006 and 2007, and scheduled for release on 9 September through Julian Casablancas’ Cult Records, the album acts as a time capsule, a snapshot of the great frontwoman’s formative life. It’s an intimate collection of lo-fi recordings in the vein of O’s Oscar-nominated The Moon Song from Her, featuring sparse production that brings her shaky vocals to the fore, like the scrawled handwriting in an angst-ridden teenager’s diary. The artwork for Crush Songs features Karen’s own personal drawings and handwritten lyrics. Tracklist: 01. Ooo (1:29) 02. Rapt (1:47) 03. Visits (1:33) 04. Beast (2:56) 05. Comes The Night (1:06) 06. NYC Baby (0:57) 07. Otherside (1:08) 08. So Far (1:34) 09. Day Go By (2:16) 10. Body (2:28) 11. King (1:23) 12. Indian Summer (1:04)