Kayleigh Goldsworthy - Learning to be Happy [Pink Vinyl]

Format: LP, Pink
Catalogue No.: MM26LPC3
Barcode: 0810097911123
Release Date: 21 Oct 2022
Genre: Indie/Alternative

TRACKLIST:
Side A
1. Losing My Mind
2. Better
3. Keep The Light On
4. Overambitious
5. Call Your Mother

Side B
1.Happy Again
2. I Want To Know
3. Boomerang
4. You’re Good
5. Little Ghost

By early 2020, Kayleigh Goldsworthy had finally figured out who she was. The long-time hired-gun musician from Syr- acuse and based in south Philadelphia, who had spent a decade backing up the likes of Dave Hause, Bayside, Frank Iero, and others, was ready to commit fully to a solo career of her own work. The day after New Year’s Day 2020, Gold- sworthy started recording her second solo LP, seven years after her debut Burrower, with Will Yip at Studio 4 outside Philly.

Then everything changed. The job and life Goldsworthy had pursued since her teen years was ripped away: tours, shows, studio time, even band practices and writing sessions, all gone. Along with those went away a hard-won sense of self.All those things that had given Goldsworthy the confidence and push to believe in herself and her work disappeared.

“I had figured out who I was,” says Goldsworthy, “then this whole thing happened, and I had to figure out who I was again.”

These are the conditions that created Learning To Be Happy, a story of undoing and becoming that begins at what Gold- sworthy thought was the end: that assuredness and strength of January 2020. This story unspools over a thrilling, winding saga of scrappy, arena-ready pop rock, charged pop punk, and acoustics-and-piano balladry. The LP’s 10 tracks are often heavy and sometimes dark, but always relentlessly con- fident and hopeful, threaded through with the sort of bruised optimism that rewards all those who do the difficult work of wrestling with what it means to be happy.