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Premiere: Lindsey Rose Black Shares New Single “Wrong Side”

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Jan 16, 2025

Indie singer/songwriter Lindsey Rose Black splits her time between Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, and her music is similarly a swirl of contrasts, fusing alt pop and indie rock aesthetics with shades of Americana twang, fiddle, and pedal steel. Black emerged in 2022 with her EP Subterra, and in the years since she has been working on her debut LP, The Myth of the American Cowboy, with producers John Velasquez (Zella Day, Vacations, Ella Vos) and Daniel Chae (Kacey Musgraves, Zach Bryan).

The full album is due out later this year and Black has already shared a pair of singles from the record, “One Of Your Girls” and “Whisk Miss.” Today, she is sharing her first track of the new year, “Wrong Side,” premiering with Under the Radar.

“Wrong Side” unfurls steadily and patiently, making full use of its massive sonic expanse. Initially, Black’s acoustic guitar and hushed vocal melodies ring stark amidst the distant, echoing percussion. These opening moments feel as if she is wandering down a lonesome road under the open sky. Yet as the track winds on the instrumentation gradually grows stately and statuesque, filling out with pastoral swells of pedal steel and drums. By its end, Black trades intimacy for sprawling scale, surrounding her plaintive folk tones with reverb and swooning harmonies. Meanwhile, the lyrics feel similarly confessional, with Black musing on her own self-destructive impulses: “And in this life, I am the guest / Burning it all down to feel my best / The furniture, my tongue / The way I fuck it up and run / To the wrong side / Hold the line / ’Til the weight leaves our eyes / I’ll try anything, anything, anything I can / Always everything, everything, everything again.”

Black says of the track, “‘Wrong Side’ was inspired by my favorite Rumi poem, “The Guesthouse,” and, I hope, offers a sense of solace and camaraderie in uncertain times. When it came to visuals, I immediately pictured the rodeo clowns I grew up watching as a child—their sad painted faces amidst extremely colorful attire and wild circumstances—and knew it was my turn to become the clown. So much of my art explores the juxtaposition of light and dark, levity and depth, absurdity and authenticity… it all just clicked.”

Check out the song and video below. Lindsey Rose Black’s new album, The Myth of the American Cowboy is due out later this year.



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