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Listen: Alison Mosshart Reassures The Anxious on Tension-Cooker ‘Rise’

By @@JohnnyFirecloud · On April 9, 2020

Alison Mosshart of The Kills and The Dead Weather puts the lockdown to good use on a new single from left field, a slow-burning tension cooker called “Rise”.

…and suddenly I’d give anything to hear a duet betweeen Alison and Brody Dalle.

Somehow, “Rise” is the first solo-single release from the enchanting leathered siren. The song was recorded for, and prominently featured in, today’s final episode of FacebookWatch drama “Sacred Lies”. The track is available now on DominoRecords. “Rise” is a throughline in the story, and is performed by Jordan Alexander (“Elsie”) in Episode One.

The press release updates fans on Alison’s quarantine coping mechanisms: “Mosshart is currently hunkered down at her Nashville home and has used this period of social isolation to teach herself video editing, pulling together some of her favorite footage from a recent visit to Los Angeles and editing it into a video for the song.”

The release continues: “For Mosshart, releasing music under her name is a new experience but an entirely thrilling one. It makes sense: Mosshart has been compiling a bank of unreleased music for more than a decade now. Back in 2013, Mosshart first wrote the initial sketch of “Rise,” which finds the singer intoning, “When the sky is falling/ and the sun is black/when the sky is coming down on ya/baby don’t look back/we will rise.” Recalls Mosshart: “I didn’t ever forget it. I remember right where I was when I wrote it, sitting at my desk in London, missing someone badly.” When the Sacred Lies team then sought out her skills for a signature song, she knew “Rise” had the right kind of vibe. “Rise” was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Lawrence Rothman.”

Good stuff, AM. Can’t wait for more…

Johnny Firecloud has been in the fight since his first interview in 2001 with A Perfect Circle, 6 years before starting AQ with Kevin Cogill. He was music editor/senior writer at Mandatory for the last 10 years.

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