Kelly Lee Owens has shared a blissed-out new single called ‘132 Techno’. Check it out below.
Shared today (Thursday October 30), the track marks the latest single to be taken from the artist’s forthcoming EP ‘KELLY’, which is set for release on November 21.
As the title suggests, the song starts with a pulsing electronic beat, before gradually and effortlessly building layers up throughout the five-and-a-half minute run time.
Although it has an ethereal, joyful feeling throughout, the track also sees Kelly Lee Owens kick things up a notch, as the track takes on a much more lively feel at the halfway point, before dying down and exploring new territory as it edges closer to the end.
Check it out below.
The Welsh electronic producer and musician announced details of her new EP ‘KELLY’ earlier this month, and confirmed that it will mark a bold new chapter in her discography, and is an unfiltered body of work both designed for the club and rooted in introspection.
She shared ‘Ascend’ as the first taste of the new material – which was an anxious, urgent track that used of deep bass and echoey vocals to build tension.
The EP is the first new music from the producer since her fourth album ‘Dreamstate’, which arrived in October last year. You can pre-order it here.
Speaking about the new EP, Owens has said: “This EP is about embodying sound and those collective, physical experiences we only really have in clubs or at music events. Sonically, it’s very visceral.”
“I’ve been drawn to sounds that sit on the edge: ominous, uneasy, sometimes even uncomfortable. That’s just where I’ve been emotionally, and I think the world reflects that too. There’s this constant push and pull between wanting to rise above the chaos, and sometimes, willingly sinking into it.”
The artist spoke to NME back in 2020 about how her connection with Wales goes hand-in-hand with her approach to music, and discussed how her song ‘Corner Of My Sky’ featured the iconic drawl of the Welsh Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale.
“I don’t want to say that it’s the past, present and future of Wales, because that puts John in the past, but I’m always interested in connections, and those with elders especially,” she shared.
“The stories they have to tell us and the things they have to teach us and what we can teach them also. Wales has suffered and been through a lot [including the oppression of the Welsh language] and I want to talk about that and be real about that in my work.”
She also shared how her journey made her reassess her view of the music industry, saying: “If I was in the position I was in two years ago around my first album, I’d have to have found another job. I would have had to have thought a lot harder about how I was going to manage financially.”
“I come from a working-class background in a small village in Wales and I worked for every cent – that work ethic instilled in me is very strong and I’m grateful for that,” she added. Find the full interview here.
Last year, NME awarded Owens’ ‘Dreamstate’ album the full five stars, writing: “A complete and resounding success, ‘Dreamstate’ offers one of the most emotionally engrossing collections of electronic music you’ll hear this year. In a world that can feel increasingly murky, impenetrable and lightless, Kelly Lee Owens’ latest cuts through the mire with a lucid and masterful vision; its profound luminescence will set your soul soaring.”
