Sarah Mary Chadwick has released “Take Me Out To a Bar,” the track is off the New Zealand artist’s of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Pākehā descent, multi-artist’s forthcoming album Take Me To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? available April 4 via the legendary Kill Rock Stars label (Elliott Smith, Unwound, Sleater-Kinney, Nirvana). In the song, the narrator studies her lone reflection in a bar mirror where her lover’s face had floated beside hers before — a man she has to plead with to make love to her in a variety of locations other than home as he belongs to someone else. The contemplative lyrics express a relatable tale of turbulent young love while learning one’s worth and boundaries.

Take Me Out To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? was co-produced by Chadwick and Chris Townend at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art’s Frying Pan Studios. To create the dreamy and cinematic feel of the record, Townend screwed contact mics to the piano’s body, played the entire album back through it with the sustain pedal held down by a sandbag, and recorded that resonating, a natural reverb — close, claustral, — that cradles each song the way a music box shelters its melody. “These days the most punk thing you can do is be resourceful,” Chadwick shrugs, “Making choices is free.”

The new album signals the beginnings of control and self-renovation. Words written unconsciously that are always five steps ahead of her own actual awareness. After a lifetime of alcohol use disorder, she got sober immediately after recording this record. ”I can hear it,” says Chadwick. “The desolate desire for change, the goodbyes, the fading romance, the memories. And the pain- that’s different but that never leaves, it’s part of me.”

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