"Lightweight" Digital Single

Available on streaming July 25th. Available for digital download NOW! Download on a desktop or laptop computer and move to your preferred music library. 

With clever lyrics and an unrelenting punch, the track embodies the feeling of dimming yourself to be in a relationship with someone who can't handle your full strength and power:

“When I’m brave enough to speak up
You shut me down
When I show up looking for love
You’re not around
Punching above my weight
Waiting for you to change
You’re still the same”. 

Minear was inspired by a professional breakup with a manager to write an album exploring codependent relationships past and present. “Someone said to me once that every time you point the finger at someone else, you have to point two at yourself, and that really stuck”, Minear says. “I wanted to explore not only problematic relationships, but how I’ve enabled and repeated them throughout my life. I’ve always been interested in understanding myself better in order to grow. It doesn’t help me to continuously blame others for their bad behavior”.

There was plenty of bad behavior. “This is someone who lied to me and still owes me money, but I knew it was happening for longer than I admitted to myself at the time”, Minear says. “I think I stayed so long because it reminded me of toxic relationships from my past and made me question myself. I won’t do that again”. 

“Lightweight” was written with frequent collaborators Dan Weeks and Dan Barracuda on a writing retreat in Woodstock, NY, and recorded between Minear’s Westchester home studio and Weeks’ WWW Studios in London. It was mixed by Grammy-winning producer and engineer, Scott Jacoby, in New York City, and mastered by Robb Robinson in San Diego. Reuben Harsant played drums, with Jonny Bird and Dan Barracuda on guitars, and Matt Weeks on Bass. Weeks himself added piano and horn parts.

“The drum sounds were very important to this project because I wanted it to feel like a protracted, immersive sparring match”, Minear says. “Dan records in a converted chapel in Surrey outside of London, and he and Reuben were able to achieve a really unique drum sound for the album, without any programming”.  

Boxing Day, expected this fall, is an alt-folk-rock album about codependency and anger featuring cinematic alt-rock tracks as well as more acoustically-driven ballads. Minear says that “in some ways, this feels like a debut album, because it’s so me. This music is organic and idiosyncratic”. Minear recently showcased the new songs at Chelsea Table & Stage, New York’s newest hot spot for intimate dining and music, frequented by the world’s best touring artists. She regularly performs at The Bitter End, New York’s oldest rock club, and Nashville’s legendary club, The Basement.