Josaleigh Pollett – YKWIM (Pacing Remix) | Song Premiere
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Self-Released
Josaleigh Pollett’s In The Garden, By The Weeds was one of my favorite singer-songwriter albums of last year, excitably detailed in my glowing review on this very blog. One of the project’s standout elements is its embrace of quirky, semi-electronic production by Pollett and bandmate Jordan Watko, aka Crowd Shy. It’s the type of record that perfectly lends itself to being re-imagined, and today, Pollett reveals the debut track from an upcoming yet-to-be-titled remix album. We’re pleased to share a version of the original album opener, “YKWIM,” reinterpreted by Katie McTigue, aka Pacing.
“YKWIM (Pacing Remix)” showcases exactly what lengths can be reached with these already fantastic songs. McTigue preserves the lo-fi energy of the original while giving it a fresh indietronic spin that sounds like It’s Blitz!-era Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It keeps the integrity of Pollett’s original vision intact and is enhanced with McTigue’s personality, as she explains here:
“I basically just dug through the stems, picked out the sounds that I thought were interesting and had fun playing with them. There was this big, noisy, distorted "chop" happening on a loop that I thought was super cool, so I turned it way up and added a bunch more noise. And I used my mountain dulcimer to make a bunch of droney stuff. This song is conveniently in D, which is the only key I know how to play dulcimer in! For the vocals, I had fun trying to sing like Josaleigh to blend with them. I love singing with my friends so much. I wish we could sing together in person!”
Pacing is a largely acoustic project, but McTigue makes a seamless transition into digital producer with this remix. The track was mixed by Dylan Ganz and mastered by Andrew Goldring. There’s no release date for the entire remix project yet, so in the meantime, listeners have the opportunity to venture into Josaleigh Pollett’s brilliant In The Garden, By The Weeds in its original form while we eagerly await to hear more takes on these songs from other artists.
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