Drop Nineteens are working on their follow-up to great comeback album “Hard Light”, but meanwhile singer/guitarist Paula Kelley has announced her first solo album in 20 years. It’s titled “Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out” and will be out March 27th 2026 via Wharf Cat.
The first single from the album is the dreamy track “Party Line,” and Paula says it “made me think of Spiritualized with Telescopes doing the vocals. It’s the requisite post-Cold War influenced track.” She adds, “When the song came to me it presented nearly fully formed- a pedaling bass line, a four part vocal harmony, an expansive soundscape. Sometimes songs sound great in your head but then don’t translate well into reality. I was lucky with this one. As I was recording part upon part, it felt as though the song was writing itself. It’s a dreamy song about dreams—not the kind that come during sleep, but rather wishes, anxieties, projections—as a way to work through and reconcile an unhappy past.”
Drop Nineteens have a few live dates in November,
The Fat Angel Sings 