NYC Alt-Rock Band NOVEMBER GIRL Gets Honest And Purges With *DEBUT EP* Heart Prayer, released 9/5. “We poured over Heart Prayer, sound by sound, note by note, second by second. I called it Heart Prayer because it is an exercise of purging some stuff. Getting things out there so I can move on from those emotions. It’s so deeply straight from the heart and honest, and it’s a prayer just as much as it’s an incantation, by nature of us speaking it into existence. It represents a time in my life when things were very much in flux” lead singer WILLA RUDOLPH says.
The collection of six songs on Heart Prayer thematically center around Nature, Sex, Magic, and Power. The lyrics poetically grapple with relationships, loneliness, and anger through dreamy and emotive vocals, while the extremely eloquent and inventive guitar interacts with the bass, which always keeps it real, keeps it punk, while the live tracked drums hold the entire arrangement together.
Starting off with the thrilling “Spiders”, which pumps and jumps through the bloodstream, Willa’s vocals are soft and steady throughout. Lush with an extremely catchy and gritty guitar riff, the bass and drums drive the track along with force, the revivalist sound of 90’s and 2000’s metal shining through. Heart Prayer then leads the listener to the pop-punk inspired “Mercy”, followed by “Yesterday,” which demonstrates that calm and melancholy Elliot Smith type-of-fury.
“Done” is unique and trance-like, almost Stereolab or Cocteau Twins, which precedes “Clover,” a sing-songy emo track with rhythmic guitar and vocals. “‘Done’ is the only track on the EP that I completely wrote and arranged from start to finish, including each instrument’s parts,” says Willa. Rounding out the EP, “Altar” finishes it off, a rousing track about being torn between two places (New York and LA, Willa’s 2 home-towns). “Clover” will have a music video out mid/late September directed and filmed by her sister, Layla Blue Rudolph.
