Kacy Hill breaks down the inspirations behind her fourth studio album, 'Bug,' out May 3, which was shaped by gardening, thrift stores, and her love of cooking.
. She didn’t set out to write a heartbreak record, but the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter says she found herself singing about feeling unfulfilled in her six-year relationship on its songs — songs that preceded a real-life split. “It's funny looking back now because I'm like,,” she tells NYLON. “Now that it's over, yeah, it's sad.”
But you wouldn’t sense that sadness for the most part listening to the album’s delicate, folkish songs, which flutter, buzz, and twinkle from sweeping pedal steel and synths, and — amid the blue — also celebrate her love of making music and her friendsAnd if you ask Hill about her memories making the record, she’ll largely recall instances of joy: of toiling in her garden, cooking homey meals, and going to vintage stores.
It sort of changed my perspective on life, quite frankly, and on music, the idea of success, and letting go of the idea of being entitled to a certain level of success. Instead, focus on the joy and the process of doing something, the way you do with a garden. When you stick a seed in the ground, there's a very good chance you will get nothing from it.
I think there was this tug of war in myself too, in doing things like that and making a meal for someone that I love, and at the same time feeling these feelings of dissatisfaction where I'm writing lyrics about not feeling totally fulfilled. I think it was in doing all of those things , that I started to wake up and be like, "Oh, I'm not getting any of this back." In a way, that created clarity, and probably was the catalyst to writing a lot of these songs, too.
I got a really good t-shirt in October. It's a very old and yellow and it has blue text and a raccoon on it that says, “Hang on, Cher. Edwin's coming.” It's like someone's high school graduation T-shirt from 1984 and I just like it a lot. I have a tiny little ceramic holder that you can nail onto the wall and it says "Rings and Things," but I've been putting my cat's whiskers in it. Why not? I feel bad throwing them away.
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