Premiere: Lola Kirke Shares Two New Songs for Valentine’s Day
Photo credit: Lili Pepper
While Lola Kirke first gained notoriety for her acting in such films as Mistress America and Gone Girl, along with the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle, she has also retained a focus on her music. Back in 2016, Kirke, who has expressed a longtime affinity for Gram Parsons’ Cosmic American country, released an EP and followed it up this past summer with the critically lauded full-length, Heart Head West. She will kick off a North American tour on Thursday in Portland, OR at Doug Fir Lounge supporting Alex Cameron. Thursday also is Valentine’s Day and in anticipation, she is releasing two new songs with that theme in mind: “Lights On” and a cover of Ted Lucas ‘ “Baby Where You Are.”
Kirke’s partner Wyndham Boylan-Garnett, produced both songs and sings on “Where You Are.” As she explains, “When we first got together, Wyndham and I rented a house in upstate New York and spent the majority of our time drinking too much wine and learning songs we liked on guitar so we could at least sing them at parties and maybe one day even record them. Ted Lucas’ ‘Baby Where You Are’ came into our lives then and has remained a staple because of how simply it expresses the truth of love and longing. I’m always excited by art that achieves that balance, which is why I fell so in love with Wyndham’s song ‘Lights On.’ I feel like the two songs express different sides of desire, one that is more certain and the other less, but both hopeful and both very known.”