Indie Alt Pop Artist Hollis Collaborates W/ Dresage On New Single “Bloom Indigo”
Debut Album Subliminal Out May 6th
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Today, Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Hollis (full name Hollis Wong-Wear) releases “Bloom Indigo" produced, co-written, and featuring LA-based indie art pop artist Dresage. The song will appear on Hollis’ debut full length album Subliminal, outMay 6th via Anti Fragile.
“Bloom Indigo'' is about building a home within yourself and the uncertainty of growth, despite the hope that it seems to promise. Hollis notes that “all the seeds are sewn / Now I gotta grow” over the chime-like and airy synth production that Dresage is praised for. For both artists who make music with the goal of empowering women all over the world, the collaboration was seamless and fruitful.
Hollis, a champion for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and female collaborators, tapped LA based animator Jamie Wolfe (Rolling Stones, King Krule, Local Natives) to direct the video for “Bloom Indigo'' which is also out today.
Listen here: https://listen.antifragilemusic.com/bloom_indigo
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv3_0F0f6JI
“The origin of this song started by reading Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés — inspired by being in the desert, alone, and thinking about the role that solitude and space plays on being a woman finding herself and her voice,” Hollis shares. “We love a reflective banger!”
“‘Bloom Indigo’ is a sonic exhale where all you can do is allow the garden that you’ve planted to grow,” Dressage shares. "We spend all this time trying to manipulate our reality and will our dreams come true? What happens if we just let them come as they intend?”
“Bloom Indigo” follows singles “Burn Burn,” “Tripwires” and “Less Like” which will all be included on the new album that's already received early praise from Ones To Watch, Flood, American Songwriter, and Spin Magazine.
Hollis, who added “recording engineer” to her resume with the new record teamed up with Macklemore collaborator Ryan Lewis as co-writer her single “Let Me Not” (Hollis earned a 2014 Grammy nomination for her work on Macklemore and Lewis’ The Heist, including vocals and songwriting for their hit “White Walls.”)
Single “Grace Lee” is a moving, introspective tribute to the late Chinese-American social activist Grace Lee Boggs. Hollis recently performed the song on BBC World News World Service’s The Arts Hour on Tour in Seattle, Washington.
Watch the episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1rvg
Hollis’ debut solo album, Subliminal is about sinking past the senses and the sensical. It’s about the complexity of healing when everything hurts, embracing the unknowns, the falls, and the falling apart. It’s about the strength to surrender and finding the courage to unnumb.
Hollis will join Mac Demarco, Mitski, Animal Collective, Japanese Breakfast and other indie icons for the “Day In Day Out” Festival from August 12-14th in Seattle, Washington.
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