Hayley Williams Announces Debut Solo Album 'Petals For Armor', Shares First Single Simmer
Thursday, 23 January 2020
Written by Helen Payne
Photo: Lindsey Byrnes
Hayley Williams has announced her debut solo album.
‘Petals For Armor’ is due to arrive on May 8 via Atlantic and will feature the lead single Simmer, a spooky and chilling indie-pop track that frequently brings attention to sharp intakes of breath and the Paramore frontwoman’s vocal range, as well as a looming, understated backing band.
Paramore’s last album was 2017’s ‘After Laughter’, but the vocalist and songwriter has appeared on many tracks without her bandmates Zac Farro and Taylor York, including soundtrack material for the movie Jennifer’s Body and collaborations with American Football and CHVRCHES. Williams stated:
"I’m so ready and so incredibly humbled to get to share this project. Making it was a scary, empowering experience. Some of my proudest moments as a lyricist happened while writing ‘PETALS FOR ARMOR’. And I was able to get my hands a little dirtier than usual when it came to instrumentation. I’m in a band with my favorite musicians so I never really feel the need to step into a role as a player when it comes to Paramore records. This project, however, benefited from a little bit of musical naïveté and rawness and so I experimented quite a bit more. I made this with some of the closest people to me. Their respective talents really shine bright throughout the record. I like to think we all make each other better and the result is something that sounds and FEELS exactly as I’d hoped it would. Now that it’s time to put it all out there, I can finally exhale. I’m excited to let people in to experience a different side of myself that I’ve only very recently become familiar with."
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