Singular Artists present Kate Bollinger
Main Room, 20th May 2025
Singular Artists proudly present Kate Bollinger for a headline show at The Workman’s Club, Dublin for 20th May 2025. Tickets are available from singularartists.ie on Wednesday 2nd October at 10am
Kate Bollinger, the Virginia-born, LA-based multidisciplinary artist, releases her kaleidoscopic debut album, Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind, today on Ghostly International. Written during a period of transience and change, Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind was made to resemble a mixtape, and casts a collage-like vision that’s instantly memorable and uniquely mystifying. Inspired by the sounds of the 1960s, Bollinger and her band — including collaborators Jacob Grissom, Adam Brisbin, Matthew E. White, and Sam Evian — have crafted a collection of pop songs, polished yet scrappy with an underlying punk spirit, navigating life, relationships, and growing up.
Listen to Songs From A Thousand Frames of Mind
The record has received early praise from outlets such as Pitchfork, The New York Times, The FADER, PAPER Magazine, DIY, CLASH, The New Cue, Paste, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan and more, is out now. Download, stream or purchase it HERE.
Also out today is a music video for the theatrical focus track, ‘I See It Now.’ As described by Kate in her diary the day she recorded the song last year: “This song was recorded in two parts. I tried describing part two as being in a loud saloon. Drunk old men sloshing beers, an old guy playing piano in the back of the place. A circus act. When Matt made the point that it sounded like ‘Silly Beatles’, ‘Revolution Beatles’, people seemed to get it then.”
Co-written and co-directed by Bollinger herself, alongside Leanna Kaiser, of the video Kate adds: “I made the video for I See It Now with my friends Leanna Kaiser and Eve Neuhart. The song made me think of a marching band, so we got some girls together and marched all around. Eve handmade a banner and a deck of tarot cards and we made a little experimental short.”
Early praise for Kate Bollinger:
“The indie-folk singer Kate Bollinger finds the silver lining in loneliness on this melancholy but ultimately hopeful piano ballad…Bollinger’s sweet, plaintive voice sounds muffled, as if enveloped in a gray cloud that, by the end of the song, has begun to dissipate.” – The New York Times
“an impeccable suite of quietly rich indie pop.” – The FADER
“A blanket on the lawn of buttery acoustic guitars, furbished with a picnic of sweet, ethereal vocal confection, in Bollinger’s world, every hour feels like golden hour” – DIY
“‘Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind’ is a portrait of a young artist in evolution” –CLASH
“Kate Bollinger writes smart, melodic indie pop music. It makes for easy listening, but there’s real insight in her lyrics. Dig deeper and you’ll discover a thoughtful songwriter coming into her own.” – NPR
“Relaxed country-folk from Charlottesville singer-songwriter Kate Bollinger, who makes a crushingly small-scale song sound expansive and rich.” – PAPER
“Kate Bollinger crafts and sings incredibly well-made and classic-sounding breathy guitar-pop songs…a swinging 60s-style technicolour chanson” – The New Cue
“’Any Day Now’ is the big one…Bollinger’s vocals are as dreamy as ever, fluttering between a whisper and a mid-century croon. She’s a tycoon of timelessness, injecting her songs with tonal splendor that glows each note with bliss” – Paste
“Strikingly beautiful” – Stereogum
