Lydia Night announces debut solo album, Parody of Pleasure

“I was listening to a lot of Gorillaz when Alexis and I wrote Gutter. It was summer in New York – things were hot and sweaty, and I was obsessed with a girl. I had the kind of crush where I would hear her in every song, smell her on every corner. It was visceral. I wanted any piece of her I could get. Sounds creepy but in like a fun, hot, gay way, I swear. We started this song as a bit of a joke since I was so far gone over someone that I had known for a couple of weeks. It was silly so we made it silly. I love that you can still hear the playfulness in the track even though it’s sensual,” Lydia Knight says of the new single.

“As a kid I was obsessed with punk because of my dad, but when I got older my mom introduced me to the pop music that stuck with me forever and inspired a lot of this record, like Gwen Stefani and Madonna and Britney Spears,” Knight explains of the reason she's embraced the pop genre on her debut album.

“After I wrote that lyric [on track "Pity Party"] I kept repeating it in my head, and finally it clicked that the word ‘pop’ could be an acronym for ‘parody of pleasure,’” she says. “Right away I knew it was the perfect title for my version of a pop record, where a lot of the songs are about yearning for love and affection, or even just yearning for the chase of that.”

Tracklist:

1. Pity Party
2. Little Doe
3. The Hearse
4. The Bomb
5. Gutter
6. Puppet
7. Meltdown
8. Trust Fall
9. Love Dumb
10. Loaded Gun
11. Chameleon
12. You Sir
13. Art Sucks