The new album, which is largely a love song to New York, features other New York musicians including Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo – whom she managed to nab when he put in an unexpected call to the studio where she was working. But things didn’t quite turn out the way she was expecting. “I didn’t want to say, what I want from you is a big fat distorted guitar sound like on Heroesby David Bowie – but that was kind of in my mind. It all ended up a bit freeform.”
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