Asher White marks joyful Noise signing with adventurous new single ‘Kratom Headache Girls Night’
Asher White celebrates her recent signing to Joyful Noise Recordings with the release of her vivid new single, ‘Kratom Headache Girls Night.’
A genre-melding force in the experimental pop scene, the NYC-by-way-of-Rhode Island multi-instrumentalist, writer, and visual artist offers up a track that’s equal parts chaotic, heartfelt, and sonically layered. ‘Kratom Headache Girls Night’ chronicles a night out at a Bushwick kratom bar, bringing together sweeping arrangements, glitchy textures, and sharp lyricism. Drawing inspiration from artists like Sufjan Stevens, Fire-Toolz, and Water From Your Eyes, White blends gentle maximalism with internet-era dissonance, delivering a song that feels both intimate and expansive.
“This is a relatively straightforward song about Hanging with the Homies, which I find to be a classic and timeless premise for many good songs. i’ve found, however, that recently there’s a dark cloud of end times that hangs out with us, of course, and there’s a new psychic puzzle of trying to have fun despite this. this song toys a little with the membrane between losing-yourself-in-rapturous-experience-of-friend-love and panic-about-the-immediate-future-on-an-urgent-material-level; sometimes a feeling of doom can even facilitate a moment of heightened presentness. so there’s some real Perks of Being a Wallflower -style images that result from me discovering I have the group of friends and lovers I’d wanted my entire childhood. the kratom bar in question is Misfit on Central Ave in Bushwick and we tend to go there a few times a month and it’s a real blast.”
The single arrives on the heels of her acclaimed 2024 LP Home Constellation Study—her 15th full-length—and her contribution to the TRANSA compilation alongside Caroline Rose and Eli Winter. With praise from Pitchfork and invites to share the stage with Deerhoof, Black Country New Road, and Godcaster, White continues to push her singular artistic vision to new heights.
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