Katie Gately announces debut album Color, shares first single, turns all our ears on their ears

Katie Gately announces debut album Color, shares first single, turns all our ears on their ears
Photo: Jasmine Safaeian

After cruising around the sound design/anti-pop circuit for the past few years, New York-born producer and electronic artist Tri Angle Records, consisting of seven new "maximalist electronic compositions based on the idea that more is more," each pretty damn vigorously composed "from layers of found sounds and manipulations of her own voice."

I know: sounds "cool" and "obnoxious" at the same time, right? Right! "It’s always about how much can I add before it just sounds too crazy," Gately admits. "What’s the most obnoxious thing I can make the song do? How can I have it be just forty-nine percent obnoxious and fifty-one percent fun? I think there is a pretty consistent thread of wanting to honor both things--wanting to honor the aggressive, not pretty sounds, but then also singing and always including a melody to balance that.”

Welp, the good news is that you can listen to her “balance that” yourself on the album’s first single, the crushing-yet-melodic “Tuck,” which is streaming down below. You can also pre-order the whole album on iTunes, after you’re 100% convinced that 49%-obnoxious 51%-fun is the ONLY way to go. It’s out October 14.

Color tracklisting:

01. Lift
02. Tuck
03. Sift
04. Rive
05. Frisk
06. Sire
07. Color

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