Coyle Girelli: 'Here Comes My Baby' - new single from second solo album by New York based English singer-songwriter / album out 25.02.2

‘Here Comes My Baby’ is the latest single to be released from ‘Funland’, the forthcoming second solo album by New York City-based English singer-songwriter Coyle Girelli. Described by Rolling Stone as “a dreamy piece of dark indie rock”, it is a heart-rending song with a woozy guitar motif that Girelli himself thinks of as "a turquoise-sea-green-coloured-washed-out-shoegazer feeling ode to a lover, celebrating being lost in her and how she anchors you, even in the midst of the craziness all around us.”

Placing it in context to ‘Funland', which was written during an enforced absence from the city during the pandemic, he explains: “I had a running playlist that I listened to nearly every day while I was writing and I think it influenced this song. Some of the main ones on there were Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Hamilton Leithauser, Cigarettes After Sex, The War on Drugs, Big Thief and Bruce Springsteen.”

Girelli has previously commented that “throwing myself back into writing helped me through what was an anxious moment for everyone and helped make sense of a world that felt out of control. New songs came to me pretty quickly and I coped with the great uncertainty of that period with something I can rely on and turn to at any time - writing music that embraces life: the joy, the pain, the quiet and the chaos.”

In regard to the album title, he states: “‘Funland’ was a concept I had been kicking around before I started writing. A nighttime place of escape, debauchery, vice and pleasure. I wrote the songs while holed up in the woods in Vermont as the pandemic raged and the concept took on a whole new meaning as the New York City I was missing got entwined with this other mythical place that I had created in my mind and it became ‘Funland.’”

‘Funland’ is scheduled for release on 25th February 2022.

Coyle Girelli is an English singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist who has previously fronted the alternative rock bands Your Vegas and The Chevin. Based in Manhattan, New York for the last decade, he released a debut solo album entitled ‘Love Kills’ in late 2018. Packed with timeless and cinematic guitar-based songs and balladry, it demonstrated just why esteemed TV chat show host David Letterman had declared “if I had a voice like that I’d run for President” after hearing him sing.

Containing superb material such as the sumptuous sounding ‘Where’s My Girl’ (described by Clash Magazine as “a swooning knee trembler”), the glorious slow-burning 'Something Strange In The Night’, plus a grandiose orchestral title track that raised the bar even further, ‘Love Kills' was hailed Stateside as “a beautifully dark masterpiece” by Atwood Magazine and as “the most surprising musical diamond find of the year” by High Voltage. A hitherto undiscovered gem for most of its likely audience, in a perfect world the entire album would soundtrack the output of David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.

As a songwriter, Girelli has collaborated with celebrated songsmiths such as Mac Davis and Linda Perry and written for several world renowned pop acts. He also works in theatre and co-composed the award winning French musicals ‘Robin des Bois’ and ‘Les Trois Mousquetaries’.

“Like a combination of Roy Orbison and Thom Yorke, filtered through a Mazzy Star lens” - ROLLING STONE

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