Hayley Williams of Paramore has launched 17 new songs in the present day as a shock. The tracks will not be but described as being a part of a particular undertaking or upcoming album, however she did add them in a single go to her web site, hayleywilliams.web, behind a password-protected immediate. To obtain the password, followers should buy the brand new “Ego” shade of semi-permanent hair dye from Williams’ firm Good Dye Younger.
The 17 songs Williams uploaded look like correct studio recordings spanning pop, indie rock, people, alt-rock, and extra. Monitor titles embrace “Kill Me,” “Unfavorable Self Speak,” and “Discovery Channel” – the latter of which interpolates Bloodhound Gang’s 1999 single “The Dangerous Contact.” At the least one in all Williams’ songs, “Mirtazapine,” aired on Nashville public radio station WNXP final week and bought its dwell debut throughout Bleachers’ set at Newport Folks Pageant this previous weekend, throughout which Williams made a shock look.
Along with the songs, Williams’ web site additionally features a folder labeled “Misc.” Inside are photos of a t-shirt studying “Hayley Williams Is My Favourite Band” (a play on Paramore’s merch), an image of lyrics scrawled in a coloring e-book, a dwell video of the band Phoenix, and a voice notice of a kid saying, “I’m sorry that you simply’re going by way of one thing arduous!”
Again in 2020, Williams launched her debut solo album Petals for Armor and the three-track Petals for Armor: Self-Serenades EP. She adopted it up with FLOWERS for VASES / descansos the following yr, which she described as “a prequel, or some form of detour between elements 1 and a couple of of Petals.” Since then, Paramore dropped their fifth studio album, This Is Why, in 2023.
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