Photo Credit: CJ Harvey
LP Giobbi has created a wave in an otherwise steady trickle of previews for her impending sophomore album, Dotr, due Oct. 18 via Ninja Tune/ Counter Records. The fourth single from the imminent set, “Until There’s Nothing Left,” incorporates vocals from Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes’ recording of “Don’t Wanna Fight,” ushering an amalgamation of female force from the track’s guest vocalist and Gobbi’s inevitable dance lean. In addition to the audio, Giobbi also dropped a visual equalizer alongside today’s single.
Coalescing their pasts, childhood photos of Giobbi and Howard populate across the screen via the official “Until There’s Nothing Left” video, interspersed with modern captures of the leading ladies: stills, live performance moments (both old and new), and more, which percolate a sense of musical autonomy and control over one’s sonic semblance. The latter lends to overarching themes across the album, particularly the potent celebration of women and their varying roles.
“This album is a lot about what it is to be a daughter, have a daughter and love a daughter, as well as a way of honoring some of the most important women in my life. There are also a lot of themes tied to home (the ones we create or the ones we were born into) which, for me, are reflected through my identity as a daughter,” Giobbi explained.
Touching on the roots of her history with Howard, Giobbi said, “I first saw Brittany Howard when Alabama Shakes performed more than a decade ago at Oakland’s Fox Theater where I was working. Partnering on the Shakes’ ‘Don’t Wanna Fight’ was a dream for me; the result feels like an epiphany, Brittany’s voice rising above spirals of synth like a prayer delivered onto the dancefloor.”
Scroll down to listen to the single and pre-order Dotr.
Intro: Patricia Lynn
Been Such a Long Time (with Mascolo)
Is This Love (with Danielle Ponder)
Feel (with Jacob Banks)
Until There’s Nothing Left (with Brittany Howard)
Interlude: Suse Millemann
Bittersweet (with Portugal. The Man)
So Nice To Be In Love (with Mascolo)
Love Come Through (with Panama)
Succession
Really Good (with Reva DeVito)
Interlude: Dad to daughter; We Say Yes (with Dad and Yona Gold)
Two Days Older (with Madelyn Rue)
Interlude: Carolyn Horn
Carolyn
Outro: Mama, Mama, Many Worlds I’ve Gone Since I First Left Home (with Holly Bowling)