Paula Kelley , a co-founding singer-guitarist in Boston shoegaze band Drop Nineteens and several other indie-rock acts, has announced her first solo album in 20 years. Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out is out March 27 via Wharf Cat . Lead single “ Party Line ” is described, by Kelley, as a “post-Cold War influenced track” that incorporates some of the gauzy shoegaze she’s knowing for, as well as some slowcore touches. Give it a listen below.

“When the song came to me it presented nearly fully formed: a pedaling bass line, a four part vocal harmony, an expansive soundscape,” Kelley said in a press release. “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 son

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