Premiere: Alena Spanger Shares New Single 'Steady Song'
New album Emergency exit Out March 22 via Ruination Records
March 18, 2024
Photo by Chelsea Wooten
Later this week, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Alena Spanger is set to share her debut album Emergency exit, out March 22 via Ruination Records. Following New York's art rock staple Tiny Hazard, Spanger has returned this year with a handful of new singles, capturing an exploratory and artful blend of electronic and acoustic elements held together by Spanger's uniquely haunting vocals. The full-length disc finds her co-producing the majority of the record with former bandmate Ryan Weiner, with additional production work from Ava Luna's Carlos Hernandez and Office Culture's Carlos Truly and Winston Cook-Wilson.
He's already shared two singles from the album, “Difficult People” and “All That I Wanted,” and today he returns with a third and final single, “Steady Song.”
In contrast to the hydraulic electro punk of her last single, “All That I Wanted,” “Steady Song” finds Spanger taking an island turn, crafting a track filled with light instrumentation, shimmering melodies, and brooding charm. Spanger's vocals soar, swirl and simmer, dancing graceful pirouettes before melting into a restrained hum. It moves along an unpredictable, winding path, weaving in and out of sparse guitar tones and strange percussion. As the song comes to a close, the mix fills with big synth beds and shimmering orchestral touches, allowing the track's idiosyncrasies to settle into a beautiful yet intimate finale, its final moments washing over a grand tapestry of sunlit melody.
Spanger says of the track, “I wanted to write a song that was just okay. It's about recovery and exploring new, quieter enjoyment, not the need to always be wiped out by the feeling.”
Check out the song below. Emergency exit out March 22 via Ruination Records.
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