KATY KIRBY

Sunday, Feb 18

KATY KIRBY
Allegra Krieger

7 pm doors
$20 adv, $22 doors
all ages

Let's face it: There's no such thing as “real life”. There is only experience and  the negotiations we undertake in order to share it with other people. On her second album Blue Raspberry, the New York-based songwriter Katy Kirby dives headlong into the artifice of intimacy: the glitter smeared across eyelid creases, the smiles
switched on with an electric buzz, the synthetic rose scent all over someone who'smade herself smell nice just for you. An exegesis of Kirby's first queer relationship,Blue Raspberry traces the crescendo and collapse of new love, savoring eachgleaming shard of rock candy and broken glass along the way.

Blue Raspberry follows Kirby’s acclaimed debut album Cool Dry Place, which was also recorded in Nashville and released in February of 2021. While the songs onthat record unfold amidst Kirby finding her voice, Blue Raspberry is a polished andconfident sophomore effort that deepens the questions that bubbled through CoolDry Place about how people can reach each other despite all the hazard zoneswhere human connection caves in. https://www.instagram.com/katykirbs

“I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane” – Allegra Krieger’s fourth record and her first with Double Double Whammy – is her most mature and alluring work yet. It contains all the signatures of her best lyricism: delicate and precise phrasings, moments that flicker between beauty and banality, meaning that forms through the accretion of observations, memories, and unexpected adages. This is an album that is at once post-theistic and devoted to a relationship with the divine, each song blinking in and out of “the fragile plane,” a place Krieger describes as “a middle ground in the universe,” both abstract and peaceful, where time, bodies, and names don’t exist. https://www.instagram.com/allegrakrieger/