If you have been searching for your new favorite pop star, look no further! Your Angel is here to bring something so refreshingly unique and vibrant to the realm of pop music. With her incredible storytelling abilities and beautifully cinematic sound, Your Angel paints a picture with every song. Back with the release of her sophomore album A Star in the Headlights, Your Angel might just be this generation’s pop enigma. Check our writer Sara’s interview with her below, and be sure to check out A Star in the Headlights on March 17th
So, you started out as a keyboardist playing over 150 sold out shows with Current Joys and Surf Curse. Is there anything you learned from those shows that helped you develop as a solo artist? Honestly, I learned everything that I know about playing live from touring with them. I played my first shows ever playing in those bands. I didn’t grow up in a town with much of a live music scene so the extent of my experience up until that point had been busking outside of Starbucks and doing open mics at this place called Warehouse 21. You’ve got a very exciting release coming up, your new album A Star in the Headlights is set to release on March 17th. I had the chance to listen to it early, and it is absolutely wonderful. You’ve really done something special with it! How are you feeling in anticipation of its release? Thank you so much! I’m feeling a little weird, I don’t think it’s hit me yet. I’ve been sitting on this album for 2 years because of covid and some other stuff, so it’s hard to conceptualize it actually being in the world. I am beyond ready though, it needed to be out like yesterday. Was the process of creating A Star in the Headlights different from your process of crafting your first album, Pipe Dream? Was there anything you learned from making the first album that you wanted to do differently this time around? The process was pretty much the same, I think I just got way better at producing for this album. Pipe Dream was me teaching myself how to produce and just messing around until things fell into place. With A Star In The Headlights I feel like I went into it with a very clear vision of what I wanted to make and actually had the skillset to make it happen. I wanted to let myself lean into pop in a way I had never allowed myself to in the past. After I wrote and produced it, I took it to my friends Nick Noneman and Stephanie D’Arcy who then did more production on it and that was by far the most fun part of the process. If you could describe A Star in the Headlights in 3 words, what would they be? Lush Ethereal Longing The tracks in this project are filled with a sense of both uniqueness and nostalgia at the same time, how did you go about finding the sound for this album? Thank you! To be honest, finding the sound wasn’t super calculated, it just came out this way. With this album I was trying to emulate a specific feeling rather than emulate a specific sound if that makes sense. If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be? Working with Pharrell would be insane! Each track is incredibly unique and adds something different to the project overall. Would you say that the tracklist is strategically placed? The tracklist was definitely strategically placed. I really value listening to albums front to back and although people don’t value that as much these days it’s important to me on a personal level to create cohesive projects that flow beginning to end. Could you talk a little about the themes in your songwriting for this album? I was coming up on a major life transition while making this album (but I didn’t know that at the time). Every ugly feeling and behavior was bubbling to the surface before something had to give. I am a pretty prideful and stoic person when it comes to showing pain and this album was me allowing myself to openly talk about emotions and feelings that I felt were embarrassing or shameful. It was an extremely healing album to make but I definitely feel like I have been sitting in it way too long and am very ready for it to not belong to just me anymore. Thanks so much for taking the time to answer our questions, and congratulations on a fantastic album! What’s in store next for Your Angel? Of course, thank you so much for listening! Next I wanna tour the living shit out of this record! I’m so excited to play it for people and truly send it off.
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