New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Ellis - Hamilton, Ontario's Linnea Siggelkow - will release her debut album Born Again next week on April 3rd, and today she shares the final single off of the record ahead of its release. Following the previously released tracks "Fall Apart," "Embarrassing," and "March 13," the gloriously sprawling anthem "Saturn Return" is out today. Much of Born Again finds Ellis immersed in rigorous self-examination, but the album - as evidenced on this track -also channels the pure joy and hard-won triumph of transcendence.
"Saturn Return is an astrological term for the time in your life where Saturn literally returns to the same place in it's orbit that it was the moment you were born," Siggelkow explains. "The first one happens in your late twenties, and it's a time of radical transformation. I am in mine now and have been feeling it big time! I wrote this record while reflecting on all the ways my life is changing, reconciling things from the past and making space to move forward." Listen, watch the Michael Pugacewicz-directed video, and read an interview with Ellis now via NYLON.
Produced by Jake Aron (Snail Mail, Solange, Grizzly Bear) and recorded partly at Aron's Brooklyn studio, Born Again arrives as the follow-up to Ellis's debut EP The Fuzz—a self-released, self-produced effort that promptly led to a deal with Fat Possum Records. In a departure from the viscerally charged dream-pop of The Fuzz, Born Again unfolds with a mesmerizing subtlety, gracefully spotlighting Ellis's unhurried melodies, starkly confessional lyrics, and luminous vocal work. Not only does this record and its production showcase Ellis' incredible growth as a songwriter, but it also explores more complex and honest themes than her earlier work.
"I grew up Christian and was quite devoted to faith up through my late teens, but I started challenging that once I got to university," says Siggelkow, the daughter of a traveling book salesman and a piano teacher. "Since then I've been trying to redefine who I am and where I stand and what I think about these things on my own, and that journey very much played into the songwriting on this record."
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