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Life's a Placebo

by Kirsten Knick

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After discovering punk-rock through her high school sweetheart, Kirsten Knick found herself infatuated with life; experiencing good music, love, and the world of drinking and drugs. It was the songs, years, lovers, jobs, travels and journeys that resulted in a breakdown in NYC, where she found herself spectating her life once again. Realising that substances had been stealing the richest nutrients of her craft, she eventually put pen to paper and turned her experiences and emotions into songs.

With new single ‘Life’s a Placebo’, we see a nostalgic-saturated production. Soaked in a dreamy mix of ambient synths and Kirsten’s warming vocals, ‘Life’s a Placebo’ explores loss in its entirety. Discussing her new track, she tells us:
“The song is sort of an epiphany, that life is a placebo. Life is as we see it. I could choose to grieve over this loss and wallow in self-pity, or I could move on and make shit happen. The recording process was with Eric Hoegemeyer and his chihuahua, Hoover, in his Astoria Queens apartment. I wrote the song when I first got sober in 2014 and when I brought it to him last year, he added some sweet synth tones and effects that gave it more dynamic than the bratty punk version I had recorded on my phone.”

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Another one I let go
For myself I’m alone
Pour myself an empty glass
Like the moon I feel cut in half
And I wish I cared
I wish I cared

They said I couldn’t feel
In defense I blamed the pills
Thought I saw myself drawn to you
Then I lost a love that’s true
And I wish I cared
I wish I cared

Maybe I can’t feel
In my defense nothing’s real
Thought I saw myself drawn to you
Thought I found a love that’s true
And I wish I cared

Life is just a Placebo
I wish I cared
Life is just a Placebo
I wish I cared
Life is just a Placebo

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released September 18, 2020

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Kirsten Knick New York, New York

Kirsten Knick is a Brooklyn-based performer. Bay Area born, she honed her sound in London performing with Spiritualized and Hot Chip.

Knick makes the the sounds of lucid dreams and forgotten nightmares. Past mistakes and future possibilities. It’s a siren that speaks to the light that shines inside all of us. They’re a warmth that haunts you in the night. ... more

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