Vancouver singer-songwriter/producer Louise Burns has announced her fifth solo album, previewed by new single "I Don't Feel It Like I Used To."
Element arrives April 21 via Light Organ. Burns released Dream Baby with her band Gold & Youth in 2021, but this marks her first solo offering since 2019 LP Portraits.
Piecing the record together over the course of the two and a half years since spring 2020, the she conceived of Element — which she describes as pop music for introverts — while the artist, who has been touring since she was 15, was more grounded in BC than she had been since the early 2000s.
"I had never in my adult life stayed at home for that long, and I'm just talking the first three months of the pandemic. That was a really interesting feeling," Burns said in a press release. "Just by default, I started writing music to create a sense of escapism for myself, choosing a more atmospheric and airier sonic aesthetic to create a sense of movement, despite being stuck in one place."
She added, "For me, there is nothing more radical than being joyful despite what you're going through." The majority of the album, a nine-track collection featuring her previously released cover of Depeche Mode's "See You," was co-produced by the artist and Jason Corbett (ACTORS) at Jacknife Sound.
"This is the first song I wrote for what became the album," Burns said of the lead single. "I felt torn between writing something more gothic country like my older catalogue, or trip hop and sample based like the music I was listening to. Naturally it turned into both, which is a testament to the song's story: an homage to my new found not really worrying about what people think my music, or me, might be, and focusing on what I like and what inspires me. Not feeling 'it' like I used to is referring to the full-body forward momentum I was feeling of getting over something that wasn't good for me. Leaving behind your past, both physically and mentally, can be a glorious thing."
Listen to "I Don't Feel It Like I Used To" below, where you can also see the full album tracklisting.
Element:
1. I Don't Feel It Like I Used To
2. Let It Die
3. Bloom
4. Hot Girls
5. Kids
6. Industry Creeps (Interlude)
7. Element
8. Play Pretend
9. See You
Element arrives April 21 via Light Organ. Burns released Dream Baby with her band Gold & Youth in 2021, but this marks her first solo offering since 2019 LP Portraits.
Piecing the record together over the course of the two and a half years since spring 2020, the she conceived of Element — which she describes as pop music for introverts — while the artist, who has been touring since she was 15, was more grounded in BC than she had been since the early 2000s.
"I had never in my adult life stayed at home for that long, and I'm just talking the first three months of the pandemic. That was a really interesting feeling," Burns said in a press release. "Just by default, I started writing music to create a sense of escapism for myself, choosing a more atmospheric and airier sonic aesthetic to create a sense of movement, despite being stuck in one place."
She added, "For me, there is nothing more radical than being joyful despite what you're going through." The majority of the album, a nine-track collection featuring her previously released cover of Depeche Mode's "See You," was co-produced by the artist and Jason Corbett (ACTORS) at Jacknife Sound.
"This is the first song I wrote for what became the album," Burns said of the lead single. "I felt torn between writing something more gothic country like my older catalogue, or trip hop and sample based like the music I was listening to. Naturally it turned into both, which is a testament to the song's story: an homage to my new found not really worrying about what people think my music, or me, might be, and focusing on what I like and what inspires me. Not feeling 'it' like I used to is referring to the full-body forward momentum I was feeling of getting over something that wasn't good for me. Leaving behind your past, both physically and mentally, can be a glorious thing."
Listen to "I Don't Feel It Like I Used To" below, where you can also see the full album tracklisting.
Element:
1. I Don't Feel It Like I Used To
2. Let It Die
3. Bloom
4. Hot Girls
5. Kids
6. Industry Creeps (Interlude)
7. Element
8. Play Pretend
9. See You