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Kate Davis

Kate Davis announces new album ‘Fish Bowl’ on ANTI-Records & shares new track “Monster Mash”.

As she triumphantly walks away from her previous life as a conservatory-trained jazz musician and into her future as an experimental art-rock singer, Kate Davis has found a new home within herself. This feeling is at the heart of Davis’ second album, ‘Fish Bowl,’ which is coming out March 24 via her new label home of ANTI- Records.

Across 'Fish Bowls 12 deeply personal tracks Davis traces her very own hero’s journey, from the moment she steps away from her old life to the moment she finds inner peace. She follows these steps through the eyes of Fish Bowl’s central character, FiBo, who starts out on opening track “Monster Mash” realizing the community she cultivated has turned on her and starts to seek real change.

“Monster Mash” was one of the first songs that was written for the record, This is the moment where the character is abandoned by everything that she knew. And there's this feeling of isolation in living your life up to a point where you're like, ‘This is what I've chosen.’

But when you transition into a different phase of life, it’s easy to feel like a monster, to feel like you're harmful to people, or that people are fearful of you.”

Davis explains.


Growing up in Portland where she began playing violin at age five and bass at age thirteen, Davis later moved to New York City to attend the Manhattan School Of Music. At night, Davis would sneak down to shows in Brooklyn, where she watched indie-rock innovators and secretly dreamed of breaking away from the academic rigor of the jazz world she inhabited. As time passed, Davis found a way to take control of her musical destiny and define her own path, which is illustrated with vivid clarity on the highly conceptual ‘Fish Bowl,’ coming three years after her debut album, Trophy.’,


“She has this background of tremendous musical chops and that is poured into this record, but at the same time she is able to speak to her experiences,”

said Stephen Thompson of ‘Trophy’ on NPR’s All Songs Considered.

In the time since Trophy,’ Davis hunkered down and expanded her sonic universe, recalling artists that thrive in the amorphous alt-folk-rock space, such as game changers Laura Veirs and Tori Amos. Fish Bowlgoes hard at times with charging guitar and percussion but pulls back in equal measure, while Davis’ sharp, harmonizing vocals lead the charge over a range of tempos and moods, which shift from ethereal and smooth to biting. She also drew influence from a vast catalog of visuals and literary references while writing Fish Bowl,’ thinking about the films of Wim Wenders and the liminal space that exists between outer space and far beneath the sea. As Davis continues to push forward with clear-eyed determination, the indie-rock world is about to gain a new sonic voyager.

Photo Credit: Maciek Jasik

"Fish Bowl" will be released on March 24th via ANTI-.

Pre-order here.


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