Austin, Texas‘s Molly Burch is preparing to release a new album, Romantic Images, on Captured Tracks. Produced by Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley of Tennis, the album sees Burch let go of the doubts and anxieties of her twenties and begin a new chapter of self-acceptance. “I wrote most of these songs in the months leading up to my 30th birthday,” Burch explains, “so I was doing a lot of reflecting on growth and change. Sometimes it’s only in hindsight that you can realize how far you’ve actually come.”
Following singles ‘Control’ and the Wild Nothing collaboration ‘Emotion’, Burch has unveiled the record’s third single, ‘Heart of Gold,’ an infectious pop song that confronts the frustration of wanting what you can’t have. The track is an illustration of the album as a whole, symbolising the evolution of Burch’s music from the raw, live-recorded feel of her earlier work into rich and confident pop that draws on genre heavyweights like Blondie, Madonna and Mariah Carey.
It comes complete with a video, directed by Jordan Moser, which sees Molly Burch spy on a dreamy bare-chested lumberjack and have a pastel-hued outdoor tea party with some baby goats. Check it out below.
Romantic Images releases 23rd July on Captured Tracks. Preorder it now from the Molly Burch Bandcamp page, including a very nice looking transparent lemonade LP edition.
