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Lizzy McAlpine Explains How Mortality and the Concept of Time Shaped Her Visceral Third Album ‘Older’
Singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine explains how the concept of time and mortality influenced her third album 'Older.'
It’s a stark, confessional body of work that trims away the more experimental flourishes of 2022’s “Five Seconds Flat.” That project propelled her to new, mainstream heights on the back of single “Ceilings,” an inescapable TikTok hit whose sped-up version has nearly 700,000 uses on the platform. McAlpine, who’s discussing the album from her Los Angeles home, began writing “Older” during the sessions for “Five Seconds Flat.” It was in 2021, during lockdown, that she was penning songs that ended up on both records. On the pre-chorus to the gauzy single “I Guess,” McAlpine sings in a hush, “Wish it was easy, I wish I knew / What I was doing, but I never do.” A voice in the room states, “Here we go,” and the song bursts into a full-blooded explosion; the chemistry in the session is palpable, almost like an epiphany.
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