Wallice shares a new single, “Gut Punch Love,” a track off the singer/songwriter’s debut album The Jester out November 15th via Dirty Hit (Been Stellar, beabadoobee). The song was written from an experience that happened to Wallice’s mother. While in Japan in the ’80s, her mother’s fiancé disappeared. Off and on for two years, she would venture into busy Osaka streets and businesses, looking for and asking about him. She eventually learned he’d been killed by Yakuza violence. Wallice has known bits and pieces of this story for years, since her mom always kept her first engagement ring in a safe. That story provided the basis for “Gut Punch Love,” a remarkably sunny power-pop number with an ascendant chorus. It feels like a dream, her mother returning to the past to find him there in the streets after all this time.

Says Wallice; “You can’t necessarily hear the amount of tragedy in the song, because it feels like an alternative-rock song,” Wallice says. “But it is tragic, and I think it’s an important story.”

The track previous singles “Heaven Has To Happen” and “The Opener.” “Heaven Has To Happen” is a confessional, intimate track about navigating the complexities of imposter syndrome while living your dream. Six-minute long title track “The Jester” tells the story of Wallice’s experience touring the world on various tours as an opener.

Wallice
The Jester
Tracklisting

The Opener
Gut Punch
Look At Me
I Want U Yesterday
Hurry Babe
Clown Like Me
Hardest Working Man Alive
Manipulate
Boring
Sickness
Deadbeat
Flash in the Pan
Heaven Has to Happen Soon
Curtains to Close

Pre-order The Jester by Wallice HERE