Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Anna McClellan's upcoming full-length, Electric Bouquet, is in stores October 25 and shipping from the F/D site on October 18. The whole album teems with rain-streaked vulnerability. Today, McClellan shares the single "Paper Alley," which is the record's most gut-wrenching track. The song emerged from a recording session marked with revelations and tears. The collaboration with her ex romantic partner was shaped by a tense bout of creativity while McClellan visited him in Baltimore. It ended in the realization that their relationship was not built to last. "I don't wanna go another day," McClellan repeatedly belts in the outro, her raw vocals resting atop a simplistic arrangement. It plunges listeners into the heart of an album that leaves little unsaid.
On the track, McClellan shares: "I started 'Paper Alley' with the word ‘And’ like it had already been going and the listener is tuning in mid-thought. It’s a song of yearning. Yearning mostly to stop yearning… No luck yet, stay tuned!"
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