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Canada-born, London-based singer-songwriter Tess Parks is today revealing her latest single ‘Crown Shy’ – the second to be lifted from her newly-announced solo album, ‘Pomegranate’, out October 25th via Fuzz Club worldwide and Hand Drawn Dracula in Canada. Alongside the new single, Parks is also announcing a string of intimate record store release shows in London and Brighton.
Now trailed by ‘Crown Shy’ and recent lead single ‘Koalas’, ‘Pomegranate’ is the follow-up to Parks’ long-awaited solo return after nearly a decade with ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing’, which arrived in 2022 to critical acclaim following a string of collaborative albums with The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe.
Written and recorded between London, Toronto and Los Angeles, ‘Pomegranate’ finds Parks teaming up with long-term bandmember and close collaborator Ruari Meehan, who assumes production duties here and co-mixed the album alongside Grammy-nominated engineer Mikko Gordon (The Smile, Gaz Coombes, Arcade Fire). Where ‘Dancing’ retained a fair measure of bedroom-demo charm, on ‘Pomegranate’ the canvas is bigger, with Meehan’s arrangements stretching all the way to the horizon.
This is the most ambitious and cinematic Parks’ music has ever sounded. ‘Crown Shy’s smouldering psych-pop, for example, is elevated to pristine new heights with the addition of soaring strings. Out today alongside a music video by Adam Carr, Parks says of the new single:
“This was the only song on the album that we didn’t write from far apart and inspired us to finish the album in person. Ruari sent me this song in early July 2023, literally seconds after I had said goodbye to my sister, Isabella, who was travelling that summer to Paris from King’s Cross Station. As always, Ruari’s timing was perfect and the music sounded exactly like how I was feeling.
This song is my gratitude to my family – and my sister especially – for being the main reason for my sobriety from alcohol, and the happiness I felt reconnecting with my sister after a fractured few years. In a broader sense, though, it’s important to remember that everyone in the world is related. We are all family. We can all always be on the same team. When we realise our commonalities instead of our differences, when we realise and own our piece in every situation and understand that we are co-creators of our realities, our worlds can really shift and it will feel like a miracle.”
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