Karl Blau announces Vultures of Love LP / Shares new single ‘Pasadena’
Renowned songwriter and prolific collaborator, Karl Blau, has announced his new solo album Vultures of Love, set for release on October 18 via Otherly Love.
Inspired by a friend’s breakup and the yearning to reconnect, the track’s melancholic alt-country tones evoke the feeling of a lonesome drive down a California freeway. Blau’s vocal delivery over slide guitar swells and whistling creates an emotional depth that is both touching and relatable. The track is accompanied by a homespun music video featuring Blau’s studio, interspersed with grainy footage of goats, cats, and birds, adding an endearing visual element to the song’s introspective nature.
Blau explains the serendipitous creation of ‘Pasadena’:
“The song ‘Pasadena’ was complete happenstance, we had some time and I was out of the ideas I had brought for Dave Flaherty who was playing drums with me as I played bass to lay the bare bones of the tracks which would become the album. I decided to switch it up and grabbed a guitar. On the fly grabbed this chord progression from thin air which doesn’t change through the entire song. It’s a reel of G Em (D) A C (F). Chords that back 100 years ago were considered demonic when strung together, now create a twisted pop motif. The backing tracks brought out a sadness that I channeled into lyrics about a personal experience with a friend. I wonder if ‘Pasadena’ would bring the listener a sense of longing and connect with a desire for change. To me it has a very NW feeling, harkening to my roots of K bands, early Beck, Bret Lunsford-ian chord progression. Yet singing about a place in “California” and written in Philadelphia.”
‘Pasadena’ is out now. Vultures of Love, is out October 18 via Otherly Love.
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