After the recent announcement of her new album, Element, which drops on April 21 via Light Organ Records, Louise Burns has shared her latest single single, and album opener, “I Don’t Feel It Like I Used To,” the track is accompanied by a music video for the track today.

About I Don’t Feel It Like I Used To: “This is the first song I wrote for what became the album. I felt torn between writing something more gothic country like my older catalogue, or trip hop and sample based like the music I was listening to. Naturally it turned into both, which is a testament to the song’s story: an homage to my new found not really worrying about what people think my music, or me, might be, and focusing on what I like and what inspires me. Not feeling “it” like I used to is referring to the full body forward momentum I was feeling of getting over something that wasn’t good for me. Leaving behind your past, both physically and mentally, can be a glorious thing.”

Burns on Element:

“I had never in my adult life stayed at home for that long, and I’m just talking the first three months of the pandemic. That was a really interesting feeling.” “Just by default, I started writing music to create a sense of escapism for myself, choosing a more atmospheric and airier sonic aesthetic to create a sense of movement, despite being stuck in one place.”

Co-producing much of the record with Jason Corbett (ACTORS) at his Jacknife Studios in Vancouver, the sessions beginning with the elegant, Bryan Ferry-inspired remodeling of See You – Burns tracking synths with her dog, Ruby, at her feet. Elsewhere, Element builds off the ‘lax, but lush’ reverberations of Burns’ 2020 remix album, Silhouettes, through its backbone of electronics and sampled percussion. Inspired by the ocean breeze of her part-time residence in Baja Sur, Play Pretend weaves the soothing sound of literal humpback whales into its digitized snare hits. With opener, I Don’t Feel Like I Used To, she marries a southern gothic guitar twang with the incandescent hypnotism of trip-hop beatmaking.

Burns says of the latter: “This is the first song I wrote for what became the album. I felt torn between writing something more gothic country like my older catalogue, or trip hop and sample based like the music I was listening to. Naturally it turned into both, which is a testament to the song’s story: an homage to my new found not really worrying about what people think my music, or me, might be, and focusing on what I like and what inspires me. Not feeling “it” like I used to is referring to the full body forward momentum I was feeling of getting over something that wasn’t good for me. Leaving behind your past, both physically and mentally, can be a glorious thing.”

Louise Burns
Element
Tracklist
Light Organ Records

1. I Don’t Feel It Like I Used To
2. Let It Die
3. Bloom
4. Hot Girls
5. Kids
6. Industry Creeps Interlude
7. Element
8. Play Pretend
9. See You

Pre-order Element by Louise Burns HERE