This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
CMU Approved
Approved: Katie Von Schleicher
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 26 June 2017
Katie Von Schleicher’s debut release ‘Bleaksploitation’ came out in 2015. Initially a cassette-only release through US label Ba Da Bing, it was recorded at the suggestion of label owner Ben Goldberg while Von Schleicher was interning at the company. The record gained unexpected momentum, showing off a talent for writing songs with a classic, 70s singer-songwriter feel, albeit under a layer of fuzz and tape hiss.
Her full-length debut proper, ‘Shitty Hits’, is now set for release on 28 Jul, still on Ba Da Bing in the US and with Full Time Hobby handling things in the UK. It sees her songwriting brought out into sharper focus, but without losing too much of that rough-edged charm. The update of her sound having already been revealed on singles ‘Life’s A Lie’ and ‘Paranoia’, her output takes a slower-paced, more electronic turn on the newly released ‘Sell It Back’.
“I wrote ‘Sell It Back’ on a quiet spring evening, windows open, at the piano”, she explains. “When I got to the refrain, I felt better. The chords open up and the tension releases. I’m vulnerable, asking ‘Do I hold my life?’ But the lyrics affirm a confidence I’ve just spent an album searching for, and they’ll guide me into the next one”.
Listen to ‘Sell It Back’ here:
Stay up to date with all of the artists featured in the CMU Approved column by subscribing to our Spotify playlist.
