A.G. Sully today shares her new single ‘Psyche’, lifted from forthcoming EP ‘Orbit’ out February 12th.
Following prelude single ‘Are you willing to change’, ‘Psyche’ continues A.G. Sully’s brand of low-lit, wistful melancholia. This time jazz-soul harmonics and the undulating pulse of trip-hop merge as the Alabama-raised, Brooklyn-based artist ruminates over a failed attempt at non-monogamy and the lessons she learned with hindsight.
Of the single, she says:
“It was one of the first songs I made after moving to Brooklyn, just learning to self-produce. New York provided me with a newfound confidence, and access to a lot of new ideas that I’d never heard of coming from a traditional southern home — one being non-monogamy (I know, very Bushwick of me). My boyfriend and I at the time thought it could be good for us, and I’ll admit, I really wanted it to work. However when the moment came, I couldn’t help but feel so guilty. Maybe it’s my deep southern roots, maybe I’m just too sensitive, too in love, or maybe it’s just not for everyone. Within a week we decided it was too painful, and I wrote Psyche in my bedroom, starting with the line ‘never meant to hurt you darling, you know I love you.’”
A.G. Sully attended college in Tennessee, where she discovered the world outside of the Christian music that was ubiquitous in her youth. She quit school to focus on trying her hand at writing non-secular music.
New EP ‘Orbit’ represents A.G. Sully’s creative evolution, reflecting her move to New York. Out of necessity, she taught herself music production — building an idiosyncratic sonic identity from the lonely quietude of her sublet. ‘Orbit’ is the product of the expressive freedom of her solo life in a new metropolis, where created a daily routine and enjoying the anonymity that comes with moving to a new city.
The EP memorialises a long-distance relationship, which brought her into intimate contact with the deepest notions of yearning, devotion, and surrender — emotions captured in her sensuous reveries of the trip-hop, dream-pop, and moon-lit, tempered R&B.
Tune in now.