Allison Ponthier starts a brand-new phase with “Autopilot,” a new tune from the singer/songwriter. Launched today by Interscope Records, the track sets her particular wit and also cozy, crystalline vocals with a broadening music combination, constructing from a carefully played guitar to lavish, technicolor instrumentation.

The Texas-born, Brooklyn-based musician created “Autopilot” with Adam Melchor and also Ethan Gruska, partners on her 2021 launching EP, Faking My Own Death (Interscope Records). Jason Suwito (Imagine Dragons, K.Flay) generated the track.

“‘ Autopilot’ initially began as a tune concerning my anxiety of driving. I’m 26 years of ages and also I’ve had my authorization 3 times, yet eventually the duty of driving has actually constantly horrified me,” describes Ponthier. “While it began as a tune concerning something silly, it wound up being a workout to discuss my weak points. I do not such as to inform individuals exactly how to analyze my tracks, yet I assume ‘Autopilot’ can handle a double entendre concerning attempting to appear the sensation of undergoing the movements.”

After collaborating on trip and also in the workshop (” I Lied”) in 2015, Ponthier welcomed Ben Schneider of Lord Huron to join her in the main video clip for “Autopilot.” Directed by Jared Asher Harris and also overflowing with wonderfully vintage information– consisting of a lovely 1957 Ford Thunderbird– the brief movie traces an uncommon relationship from very first conference and also charming days to marital relationship and also a homebound honeymoon that does not most likely to strategy.

Tickets get on sale today for Ponthier’s first-ever headlining programs– at Baby’s All Right in New York (June 14) and also the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles (June 16). She’ll sign up with Bleachers on their North American trip, which introduces May 17, and also carry out at BottleRock Napa Valley.

Growing up as a dewy-eyed misfit in the Lone Star State, Ponthier desired for escaping to New York City. When she made the transfer to Brooklyn at age 20, she really felt out-of-place in a brand-new means– like a goody-two-shoes Southerner in the center of East Coast hipsterdom. The matching interior trip influenced the string of reflective, distinctive yet relatable tracks located on Faking My Own Death, hailed as “outstanding” by NME The Austin Chronicle stated, “The touches of pop remain in a guiding haze that cabarets her country-leaning tunes, causing the type of unique Western pop that swells the feeling of misplacement and also unpredictability while biding comfortably to comply with.”

Buy or stream “Autopilot.”

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