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Premiered on Under the Radar Magazine - https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_josaleigh_pollett_shares_new_single_radio_player

Salt Lake City-based Indie Singer-Songwriter Josaleigh Pollett will return on October 28th with “Radio Player,” an electronics-infused and Poltergeist-inspired new single. Here, Josaleigh is reunited with long-time collaborator Jordan Watko (Crowd Shy) for the first time since Jordan’s relocation to Japan, making this their first recorded output since 2023’s highly acclaimed “In the Garden, By the Weeds,” which NPR Music’s Bob Boilen featured on All Songs Considered.

Despite the distance between them, the pair opted to make their first cross-continent collaboration more ambitious and exploratory than what came before. Initially finding acclaim in 2020 with their ‘No Woman Is the Sea’ album, before going on to share bills with St. Vincent, Torres, Deep Sea Diver, DeVotchKa, Mini Trees, Hibou, and Kilby Block Party, “Radio Player” sees their sound continue to evolve. This new slowburning single merges analogue atmospherics, Indie Rock drive, and Pop melodies to create something that feels haunting, claustrophobic, and cathartic.

Speaking on their return, Josaleigh comments:

"Radio Player is a song about memory and fear, loosely based on seeing the movie Poltergeist at too young an age. It is a journey through the hallways of childhood that we leave a light on within. A pink light flickers on and beckons the listener through, releasing them changed and covered in ectoplasm five minutes later.

In true independent DIY fashion and similar to 2023's In The Garden, By The Weeds, this new song is recorded mostly at home between my Salt Lake City make-shift home studio, and Jordan's apartment in Japan. The difference this time is that we're bringing in more collaborations and new instrumentation. In addition to mixing and mastering, Nashville's Andrew Goldring helped with production and played some instruments on Radio Player, as well as being a part of the live band that played Kilby Block Party earlier this year. Radio Player really got its feet under it in a live band setting, and we tried to bring more of that to our production without losing the electronic-based production that Jordan is so fluent in. 

This is the first song we made together since Jordan moved to Japan in 2024, and instead of letting distance dampen our collaboration, we really tried to lean into the chaos and confusion of creating from different ends of different days while an ocean apart. I think a lot of that anxiety and newness mixed with the dedication of friendship drives this new music.”

Josaleigh Pollett.- Radio Player

Climbing up five stories high
So I can get a better view
Of the city that I’m tethered to

Climbing up five stories high
’Cause I need this everything to be
More than what’s in front of me

I’d call you up but it wouldn’t make sense
I thought it once and then never again
And I’m fumbling — and I’m fumbling

They’ve tied me up to a new prescription
But baby, I don’t like the medicine
And I’m fumbling — and I’m fumbling

Climbing up five stories high
So I can get a better view
’Cause something’s gotta give real soon

Oh, you’d only say that it sounds
Like absolute insanity
Every word that’s coming out of me

I’d call you up but it wouldn’t make sense
I thought it once and then never again
And I’m fumbling — and I’m fumbling

They’ve tied me up to a new prescription
But baby, I don’t like the medicine
And I’m fumbling — and I’m fumbling

This is not forever
This is temporary low
And I’m fumbling — and I’m fumbling

This is not forever
This is temporary low
And I’m fumbling — and I’m fumbling

- Written by Fredrik Gustafsson, Rassmus Björnson, Oskar Nyman & Ben Lythe.

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