Blair Lee’s new single, “Gladstone,” is an immersive reinterpretation of a state that often captures the singer, “one of extreme thoughts that consume me.”
The song’s lyrics follow looping, circular thoughts that eventually lead to an outburst. The refrain – “Gladstone glass of wine, throw it out the window” – is a reference to a conversation she had with a friend at the Gladstone in Toronto.
“I was telling her how it was a particularly volatile time for me,” says Blair, “that I’d been having these episodes where I wanted to do things like throw all my socks out of the window of the twentieth story of my boyfriend’s apartment just to watch them dance their way to the ground.”
Instead, she and ModMaxx produced “Gladstone” together in his apartment, where they worked to communicate a “fragmented mood that still has a structure to it, rooted in repetitive patterns.”
More songs and an EP will follow early next year.
