What are you searching for? What do you need for your life to have meaning and purpose? For Lindsay Kay, faith is a five-letter word she’s familiar with yet a stranger to at the same time. The artist exposes her struggle with faith in her poignant new song “Sunday,” a heavy, mellow ballad full of sorrow and searching.
Based in Los Angeles by way of Canada, singer/songwriter and producer Lindsay Kay prides herself on crafting “quiet, melancholy music centering around themes of femininity and womanhood.” Kay’s third song release of 2018 comes on the heels of February’s “Invited” and August’s “Too,” which epitomize her aforementioned self-descriptions. A purveyor of Intimate, raw lullabies, Lindsay Kay has a distinct ear for the melancholic, and she knows exactly how to evoke heartfelt emotion in her audience.
“Sunday” carries the intimate and intense weight of Lindsay Kay’s previous material as the artist recounts, in vivid detail, a particularly emotional experience during her artist residency in rural France in early 2016. “’Sunday’ was inspired after attending Catholic Mass in a very small, somewhat conservative French town,” Kay tells Atwood Magazine. “It came fully formed, a true gift which doesn’t happen often. At the time, I was feeling sad, angry, and frustrated. This feminine pain was beginning to stir within me, and I was looking for faith and explanations as to why things are the way they are. These questions led to all of the other thoughts and themes
I explore on the album – they were the catalyst. It’s track one because it was that initial spark that started the journey that culminated in this album.”
Kay explains, “Sunday is about the desire I had for faith at a certain time of confusion and questioning. I have always been, unconsciously or consciously, very drawn to and have found myself……READ MORE
