Let's not kid ourselves: There is no such thing as "real life". There are only experiences and the negotiations we make in order to share them with other people. On her second album Blue Raspberry, New York-based songwriter Katy Kirby dives headfirst into the artifice of intimacy: the glitter in the creases of the eyelids, the smile with an electric buzz, the synthetic scent of roses. An exegesis of Kirby's first queer relationship, Blue Raspberry traces the crescendo and collapse of a new love, savoring every shimmering shard of rock candy, bonbons and broken glass along the way.
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