Simply days after sending followers on a quest to search out her new solo materials by way of a passcode-required web site, Paramore singer Hayley Williams has lastly launched her 17-song assortment to streamers. However, as with the earlier incarnation, there’s a catch.
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After asking followers to access the site via a purchase code from the singer’s Good Dye Younger hair dye firm over the weekend — after which simply as mysteriously eradicating the songs two days later — Williams dropped the total, seemingly untitled challenge followers are referring to as Ego (or Ego Dying) on Friday morning (Aug. 1). In step with the thriller across the challenge, although, every track has seemingly been uploaded as a stand-alone single and never bundled as a standard album.
Every additionally has its personal bespoke paintings consisting of moody black and white photos of Williams along with her face and physique overlaid with gold squiggles, halos, highlights and planets tied to the track’s titles. Williams has not commented on the way she’s launched the songs, confirmed the title or given any indication of when or the place they have been recorded. Following Paramore wrapping up its contract with Atlantic Data, although, it’s notable that the title of Williams’ new label is listed as “Put up Atlantic.”
In an Instagram Story, Williams reposted a tweet from a fan’s idea in regards to the method and methodology of distribution during which they speculate, “okay wait what if the order of the album identical to doesn’t matter bc on the desktop model of the web site they have been scattered and you would transfer them wherever and by releasing them as singles she is making it not possible to place so as which is presumably the purpose.” The Story then zooms in on a touch upon that remark that reads: “your mind is so massive.”
On her Insta feed, Williams additionally uploaded all of the paintings from the singles, together with the credit, which reveal that she labored on the songs with touring Paramore band members guitarist Brian Robert Jones and bassist Joey Howard, with manufacturing on all of the songs by Daniel James, who additionally co-wrote all of the tracks; Lorde collaborator Jim-E Stack is listed as a co-writer and co-producer on the haunting protest track “True Believer.”
Different tracks embody “Discovery Channel,” which options an interpolation of the Bloodhound Gang’s signature 1999 comedy pop hit “The Unhealthy Contact,” in addition to the Liz Phair-like rocker “Mirtazapine,” an ode to the antidepressant Remeron. Williams not too long ago debuted the latter on Nashville Public Radio’s WNXP per week after the Republican-led Congress voted to claw again greater than $1 billion in funds for NPR and PBS.
The gathering additionally consists of the dreamy “Kill Me,” acoustic ballads “Blood Bros,” “I Gained’t Give up On You” and “Adverse Self Speak” and the poppy tunes “Ego Dying at a Bachelorette Occasion” and “Brotherly Hate.” With a spare, confessional really feel the songs vary from house studio-sounding confections with pitched up vocals (“Glum”), to the hip-hop-adjacent screamer “Ice In My OJ,” which includes a drum machine beat and the whisper-to-scream refrain “I’m in a band!”
At press time Williams had not formally commented on the album’s launch or whether or not she considers it the right follow-up to both her 2020 debut solo album, Petals for Armor, or its extra folky 2021 sequel, Flowers for Vases/ Descansos.
You may take heed to the 17 new songs on the Spotify playlist under and take a look at all the only paintings and credit on Williams’ Instagram page.