“Delete The World” follows-up recent DOC NYC fest premiere of Lunachicks documentary feat. Debbie Harry of Blondie, Dexter Holland of The Offspring, more.
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Gina Volpe as photographed by Jayme Thornton
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Gina Volpe |
In The Press
“Catchy, swaggering dance-punk.” — Brooklyn Vegan
“Channels modern angst via detuned metal guitars and
rattling 808 beats.” — Rolling Stone
“Layered with chunky riffs, pop, and dance sounds.” — She Shreds
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Gina Volpe | “Drink Me”
Gina Volpe, prolific NYC-based artist and founding member of
punk rock royals, Lunachicks, enters
the next phase of her career as a solo artist with the release of the debut
album Delete The World, out now.
Produced by Barb
Morrison (Blondie, Franz Ferdinand, Rufus Wainwright), who deftly captures Volpe’s soaring, crunching riffs and sultry magnetic voice while
also delivering flashes of Brian Eno,
Delete
The World follows closely on the heels of a Lunchicks renaissance.
The late 2023 premiere at the world-renowned DOC NYC documentary film festival of “Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks”
featuring Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie, Dexter Holland
of The Offspring, Donita Sparks and Jennifer Finch of L7,
and others, is the perfect primer on Lunachicks’s
lasting influence, which began when Volpe
co-founded the ferocious punk band with her fellow high school classmates in
the 1990s. Lunachicks released a
half-dozen albums, toured the world numerous times, and staked a claim in rock
history.
Gina Volpe is
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Streaming Link:
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Track Listing:
02. Until I Arrive
03. Delete The World
05. Slow Burn
06. Currents
08. Even The Doomed
09. Mountain, What Is Your Name
10. Begin
11. One In The Same
12. Low
13. In Water
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More About Delete The World by Gina Volpe
Gina Volpe, prolific NYC-based artist and founding member of
punk rock royals, Lunachicks, enters
the next phase of her career as a solo artist with the release of the debut
album Delete The World, out now.
Produced by Barb
Morrison (Blondie, Franz Ferdinand, Rufus Wainwright), who deftly captures Volpe’s soaring, crunching riffs and sultry magnetic voice while
also delivering flashes of Brian Eno,
Delete
The World follows closely on the heels of a Lunchicks renaissance.
The late 2023 premiere at the world-renowned DOC NYC documentary film festival of “Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks”
featuring Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie, Dexter Holland
of The Offspring, Donita Sparks and Jennifer Finch of L7,
and others, is the perfect primer on Lunachicks’s
lasting influence, which began when Volpe
co-founded the ferocious punk band with her fellow high school classmates in
the 1990s. Lunachicks released a
half-dozen albums, toured the world numerous times, and staked a claim in rock
history.
Now Volpe
brings decades of chops, experiences, and attitude to Delete The World, adding
brooding, textured, and experimental sounds that combine on lead single and
video “Drink Me,” recently called “a
catchy, swaggering dance-punk song” by Brooklyn
Vegan. Heavy bass riffs and retro synth sounds pair perfectly with the
visually arresting music video created by award-winning pop surrealist Stänzii.
“‘Drink Me’ was inspired by my occasional tendency to lean
precariously on vices — wine in this case — but also the collective experience
of friends I had been in conversations with about obsession and addiction,” Volpe explains. “The lyric, ‘one foot
in the grave, the other in my mouth,’ is a cheeky observation of how messy and
dangerous our habit of running to the nearest exit can be.”
While Volpe
is known for her furious guitar solos, Delete The World proves that she is
a true musical nomad at heart, a fact that becomes even clearer when asked
about her influences.
“I am always so careful about who I cite as an
influence because it doesn’t make a lot of sense in relation to what I’m doing,”
Volpe explains. “Pink Floyd, I mean, I sound nothing
like them. David Bowie’s Scary
Monsters, Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love.’ I also love Death From Above, but I sound nothing
like them. ZZ Top... I don’t hear
any of them in my music either!”
Volpe also mentions her fondness for newer bands such as Idles, Dry Cleaning, and Viagra
Boys before using this question about influences to point out a reality
that follows proactive female artists like herself.
“I feel like there can be a binary way of thinking in
the music industry,” she says. “Even in the streaming platform’s algorithms,
which suggest gender is a genre in and of itself. This conversation vexed me my
whole career. My influences span the gender spectrum.”
Like the societal borders that Volpe rightly reminds us about, she describes Delete The World as “a
disintegration of not just traditional stylistic borders, but also mental ones.”
Many of these songs reflect on coping mechanisms gone
awry, unintended consequences, and how perception can cut you loose or keep you
confined. It is a dubious assumption that humans are in control of anything,”
she says.
Volpe is absolutely in control of her ability to take
everything she has absorbed during her prolific career and turn it into a
singular solo statement. “With Delete The World, I get to color
outside the lines and be as messy as I wanna be.”
Delete The World by Gina Volpe is out now. Lead single and
video “Drink Me” are streaming now.
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Gina Volpe | Links
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