Bachelor – the collaborative project of Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner – have released their debut album Doomin’ Sun, out now through Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Written and recorded in Topanga, CA over the course of two weeks in January of 2020, pre-pandemic, Doomin’ Sun is a record steeped in friendship. Kempner and Duterte hybridised their individual songwriting talents, producing a collection that slips between moods with ease and showcases their lyrical prowess. While the album features collaborations with the likes...
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Bachelor – the collaborative project of Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner – will release its debut album Doomin’ Sun on May 28th via Milk! Records. The duo share another single off of the record. Of the country-inflected ‘Sick of Spiraling‘ the band says “Sick of Spiraling is one of the last songs we wrote and recorded together in Topanga. Both of us initially tried to play drums on the song but the groove wasn’t right so we enlisted help from James Krivchenia. He came over...
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Palehound’s Ellen Kempner and Jay Som’s Melina Duterte recently announced their new collaborative project Bachelor and shared acclaimed first single ‘Anything At All’. Today, the duo announces their debut album — Doomin’ Sun due out May 28 on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records — alongside brand new ‘Stay in the Car’ track and music video directed & edited by Haoyan of America. On the bass-heavy rock song, the duo paint a yearning portrait of a woman in a supermarket parking lot, a barely-contained...
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