Nearly two decades since helping to usher in the debut record from the psych-soul group Celebration, vocalist Katrina Ford has revealed plans today to release her self-titled debut EP after sharing the solo track “Peace Out” at the beginning of the month. Along with the news comes the follow-up single, “Gleaming the Cube,” which swaps the skate-punk energy of the film it shares a name with for something considerably more mysterious—characterized by a funky bass groove, undulating piano, and rasping guitar in addition to Ford’s anchoring vocal.
The track is “about finding inner balance,” she explains. “It’s a spell to end depression. Not to be eclipsed by mood, I’m using this stream of consciousness as a tool for healing and self-empowerment. Seeing that little black cloud and saying, ‘Hey, I know you.’ No longer good or bad. we're using a fourth dimensional hypercube as a musical model.”
As for the EP, Ford shares that the forthcoming project is “a head full of things. I’m a bit of a maximalist that can’t organize...it's empowering, self-help tunes. Musical spell-casting for law of attraction and alchemical dance therapy shadow work. The guiding principle imagined was, ‘What would this sound like blasting out of a car going at high speed?’ But the internal intention was to evoke an invitation to journey back from the underworld of soul retrieval...to bring back layers of drippy, happy hammering synths dotted with the humor of digital claps, an interjected alchemy of weaving therapy into the art, from dark to light.”
Hear “Gleaming the Cube” below, and expect Katrina Ford to drop June 24.
