Ella Boissonnault doesn’t give a fuck.
Last month, when everyone was busy sharing, reading, and dry-humping Year in Review recaps and penny-streaming Wrappeds, Lady Pills went and dropped one of the best songs of 2021. But like we noted in our Blushing piece earlier, sometimes those killer tunes released in December aren’t about the closing year, but instead are positioned more for the blossoming calendar ahead.
And so Lady Pills’ new album arrives next month and it starts up the AOTY ’22 conversation; the LP is titled What I Want, contains 10 tracks, and hits February 11 via Plastic Miracles. And what we want right now is more of the hypnotic indie goodness of “My Weight,” a slinky guitar-pop jam that snakes around the soul and squeezes only when it needs to, calling back to the underground Allston scene of the late ’00s while never not feeling locked into the right now and what’s to come tomorrow.
No stranger to our digital pages, Boissonnault says that What I Want was written over an extended period of time and serves as “a collection of endings, grief, and trauma, but told through the lens of someone who gained the autonomy and confidence to push through anyway.” She adds: “I hope this record inspires the same for anyone who hears it… What I Want serves as a painter’s canvas or a room full of tools that the listener can do what they want within.”
Get into “My Weight” below, and feast those eyes upon the spellbinding video, featuring videography by Hannah Blauner and Nicholas Blaunder, choreography by Boissonnault and Maya Staples, and a cameo by that house you used to live in back when you were having the time of your life.
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