Bnny Releases New Double Single, "Something Blue / Changes"
Bnny — the Chicago band fronted by Jessica Viscius — is an “indie scene staple” (FADER). Today, the quintet presents the double single “Something Blue / Changes” from their forthcoming album, One Million Love Songs, out April 5th via Fire Talk Records. Following lead singles “Good Stuff,” a “hopeful heartbreaker” (Gorilla vs. Bear) and “Crazy, Baby,” “Something Blue” is about the struggle of escaping your past. The track rises, sighs, and rests in its own tension, with Viscius’ voice calm with a self-assured form of acceptance.
In “Changes,” she hangs a simple lyric (“It’s the changing of the seasons”) on a straightforward melody like a sheet being draped over a clothesline, channeling Mazzy Star and mimicking the soft, gauzy, fresh feeling of realizing you’re able to begin it all again with a new person: “new memories / new feelings / new hope / and new reasons.” “So happy I could scream,” she sings, and then she does. QUOTE FROM JESS
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There are one million ways to approach love, one million ways to experience love, one million ways in which love shapes both the course of our lives and how we choose to navigate that course. Many of the tracks across One Million Love Songs take it as a given that love will end. Viscius is looking love square in its many eyes and describing, with self-awareness and humor, not only what she sees, but what it makes her feel.
Produced by Viscius and recorded at Asheville’s Drop of Sun Studios with Alex Farrar (Wednesday, Indigo de Souza), One Million Love Songs is a brighter, fuller record that shows Viscius’ immense growth as an arranger and artist. It follows Bnny’s “spare and grieving” (New York Times) debut album, Everything, a raw and honest document whose songs seemed to emanate from Viscius like a personal climate. And while those songs have not lost an ounce of their power, performing them every night live across the US and Europe made for a new and different kind of exhaustion. It’s hard to access your grief all the time; it’s even harder to share it. “I wanted to make songs that are exciting to play—songs that make me feel happy,” Viscius says. “This album is about love after loss, getting older, and just trying to have fun with a broken heart.”
Deep romantic love, breathy lust, generous self-love—and their opposites, self-loathing, resentment, disappointment—all make appearances on One Million Love Songs. Bnny will perform a hometown show at The Empty Bottle on Friday, April 19th along with a EU/UK tour and a performance at Baby’s All Right in New York City. Tickets are on sale now here.
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BNNY TOUR DATES
- Fri. Apr. 19 - Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle (Record Release)
- Thu. May 9 - Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown
- Tue. May 14 - London, UK @ Paper Dress Vintage
- Wed. May 15 - Southampton, UK @ Heartbreakers
- Fri. May 17 - Brighton, UK @ The Great Escape
- Sat. May 18 - Manchester, UK @ Yes (Moodswings)
- Mon. May 20 - Paris, FR @ Supersonic
- Thu. Jun 13 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right
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