Lola Kirke has just announced her debut full-length album Heart Head West, which is due on August 10th via Downtown Records. Recorded in Los Angeles, the record is a deeply open account of Kirke’s self-doubt, family matters, social concerns, and personal loves and joys.
Along with the announcement, Kirke shared the upbeat track “Supposed To” with a video she directed herself. The clip is a rollicking look at an aging woman gone wild. “The song ‘Supposed To’ is really about the intense pressure I feel to be what other people think I should be and what I think I should be,” says Kirke. “How rebellious would you feel if you had spent your life just doing things that you felt that you were supposed to do? That society told you to do?”
Kirke is the star of films like Mistress America and Gone Girl as well as Amazon’s award-winning series Mozart In The Jungle.
Born to a musical family (her father is Simon Kirke, drummer of Bad Company and Free, and her sister is singer-songwriter Domino Kirke), Lola embarked on her own musical journey with her four track EP released in 2016.
Tracked live to tape in East Los Angeles and produced by frequent collaborator Wyndham Garnett (Elvis Perkins in Dearland, WYNDHAM) her debut LP Heart Head West, asserts her as part of the artistic tradition she holds so dear: delivering her own heart, laid bare for someone else to hear as theirs. “It’s a really personal record about basically everything I though about in 2017-time, family, loss, social injustice, sex, drinking, longing-essentially everything I’d talk about with a close friend for 40 minutes.”
Heart Head West Tracklist:
1. Monster
2. Born To Die
3. Supposed To
4. Simon Says
5. Turn Away Your Heart
6. Sexy Song
7. Bad News
8. Heart Head West
9. Out Yonder
10. Point Of No Return (Jim Ford cover)