Lychee Ice

As probably anyone reading this knows, I released a new song last week! It’s called “Lychee Ice” and it’s a love song about going to the beach and vaping hahaha. 

I wrote Lychee last spring after coming home from tour filling in on drums for Kississippi. I was a week out from meeting up with my boyfriend Nick and his family in Chicago for a trip to Amsterdam to see his sister, and just sailing the high of doing the thing I love (playing the music for the people) again.

So I was riding my bike, as I am wont to do, and just thinking about how happy I was. How excited I was about where things were going. What was on the horizon. You know when you wake up and you somehow make it like halfway through the day before the crushing weight of being a human who is alive with a body and a brain capable of making decisions and suffering the repercussions of those decisions hits you? That’s where I was at.

Pebble Beach is nothing more than a tiny strip of undeveloped shoreline off the Cape Fear River, but it’s incredibly special to the people of Southport. I have no idea why I’m typing all of this like a robot right now. It’s giving chat gpt. It’s also giving like… 7th grade writing test? ANYWAYS. I was there. I rode my bike to Pebble Beach. Laying in a tree house some kids had started making specifically. And I was just thinking about how crazy it was that in all Nick’s trips to Southport I kept forgetting to take him there. Here. To Pebble Beach. A place that had offered me solace and entertainment for over fifteen years.

The chorus words and melody came to me while I was riding home and I sang it into my little phone so I wouldn’t forget it. I’ll post it here if I can figure out how to do that.

I played the song for Taylor when we were gearing up to start playing the first Gay Meat shows, and he really pushed to add it to the setlist. I just kinda let him do whatever he wanted on drums. I like all of Taylor’s ideas… for the most part. But I think that’s normal when you’ve been writing and playing music with someone since you were teenagers.

We recorded the song last fall shortly before I moved to Chicago, and it was a ballistically fun time in the studio. I’ve never been coached through vocal harmonies before (Shout out Alex Thompson), and it felt really good to get Taylor in there and let him play on the song. It’s one of two songs we tracked. The b-side, or sister song to Lychee is called “Not Even Sadness.” It drops September 12th, and it’s probably the song I am the most proud of at the moment, but I’ll spare y’all the details–my new thing is trying not to oversaturate anyone and everyone who is willing to interact with me.

On my last day in Southport before the move I texted one of my absolute favorite people on the planet Dylan Thompson and asked him to come shoot a music video with me. We basically just rode bikes to Pebble Beach and dicked around. The same kinda shit we’ve been doing since we were kids. He gave me $100 bill before he left and told me not to die. You can watch the vid here.

Also that thing about not over-saturating people doesn’t apply to this newsletter/blog. I’ve just been busy with tour/birthday/work stuff… plus Nick and I move to Champaign, IL in a week. Also I bought one of those little sticks with propeller wings on it from the hardware store and I CANNOT stop playing with it.

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