New Year’s Kiss

Katie Bejsiuk

Katie’s sweet, hushed version of Owen Ashworth’s NEW YEAR’S KISS is from a wonderful collection of covers called You Were Alone: An Owen Ashworth Almanac. It features 26 Casiotone For the Painfully Alone and Advance Base songs. This one especially feels like a revelation, mining the darkness of the song in a fresh way — with Katie’s whispered (female) vocals. The story just lands differently. The starkness of the plucking acoustic guitar and her back ground vocals are haunting and reinvent a new lonely space for this story song to live. Pick up the album because it’s great. Also because the proceeds go to Owen’s local food pantry Beyond Hunger in Chicago. Katie’s new record THE WOMAN ON THE MOON comes out on June 24th from Double Whammy.