Pasadena-based artist Charlie Hickey is announcing today his debut EP Count The Stairs, which will be self-released on February 26th.
Produced, mixed, engineered by Marshall Vore, Hickey is pairing the announcement with the release of “Ten Feet Tall,” featuring Phoebe Bridgers. As the press release notes, the track is the first Vore and Hickey ever wrote together.
Check out the song above via its music video by Zoe Donahoe and Adam Sputh.
More details below.
‘Ten Feet Tall’ is sort of a different animal than any other song I’ve written… I was going to school at the time and was feeling quite alienated in this little world where everybody was instantly partying with their brand new best friends and fun came so naturally. I found solace in Marshall’s studio on the weekends. This was our first proper attempt at writing together and we were writing something really horrible. We were both kind of delirious and Marshall started singing the verse melody for the song as a joke, making fun of what we had been trying to write. But when I heard it, I said to him, “Wait, that’s the song that we’ve been trying to write.” After that, we wrote the rest that night and recorded it the next day. We re-recorded it a few times before going back to what we did that day. I’ve never written or recorded a song like that since, and we weren’t sure it was even gonna come out but when I hear it back, it really serves as a time capsule of a very confusing/depressing but also very fruitful and fun time in my life!
Count The Stairs Tracklist
- No Good At Lying
- Count The Stairs
- Two Haunted Houses
- Seeing Things
- Ten Feet Tall
- Notre Dame
Count The Stairs EP Cover Art
