Hayley Williams of Paramore has launched 17 new songs immediately as a shock. The tracks aren’t but described as being a part of a particular mission or upcoming album, however she did add them in a single go to her web site, hayleywilliams.web, behind a password-protected immediate. To obtain the password, followers should buy the brand new “Ego” shade of semi-permanent hair dye from Williams’ firm Good Dye Younger.
The 17 songs Williams uploaded look like correct studio recordings spanning pop, indie rock, folks, alt-rock, and extra. Monitor titles embrace “Kill Me,” “Unfavourable Self Speak,” and “Discovery Channel” – the latter of which interpolates Bloodhound Gang’s 1999 single “The Unhealthy Contact.” At the very least one in all Williams’ songs, “Mirtazapine,” aired on Nashville public radio station WNXP final week and acquired its stay debut throughout Bleachers’ set at Newport Folks Competition this previous weekend, throughout which Williams made a shock look.
Along with the songs, Williams’ web site additionally features a folder labeled “Misc.” Inside are photos of a t-shirt studying “Hayley Williams Is My Favourite Band” (a play on Paramore’s merch), an image of lyrics scrawled in a coloring ebook, a stay video of the band Phoenix, and a voice notice of a kid saying, “I’m sorry that you simply’re going by means of one thing exhausting!”
Again in 2020, Williams launched her debut solo album Petals for Armor and the three-track Petals for Armor: Self-Serenades EP. She adopted it up with FLOWERS for VASES / descansos the subsequent yr, which she described as “a prequel, or some type of detour between elements 1 and a couple of of Petals.” Since then, Paramore dropped their fifth studio album, This Is Why, in 2023.
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