Last Monday, May 1, Nashville-based Australian singer-songwriter Felicity announced her debut EP: "You Take Me To Dinner But You'll Never Feed My Soul," out on July 19 via East Music Row Records.
The artist also commemorated the news with the arrival of the album's lead single: "I Prefer You In My Head," tense and painful confessional co-written with Nashville songwriters Warren Lively and Ellis Melillo.
About 'I Prefer You In My Head' by Felicity
The sparsely orchestrated song features only one guitar string supplying a steady bassline underscoring Felicity's emotional and menacing vocals, which solely takes center stage before everything starts to unravel lyrically and musically, letting loose a series of intense strums.
Echoing the song's intimate yet gradually spiraling story is a simultaneously released official lyric video that depicts the artist internally battling the toxic relational cycle she can't escape from, getting "high" herself as it is a state she prefers her partner to be in.
"The song basically wrote us," Felicity says. "Ellis was going through a hard breakup, she showed up very sad and a little late. She laid face down on the carpet and simply said 'I don't know man, I don't recognize him anymore, I just prefer him in my head.'"
"The song was finished a couple hours later," she continued. "We made the choice to keep the production stripped down to a single note on guitar and a few harmonies in the back, it allowed the song to really breathe and take in every painful lyric front on."
Following the release of one of her "most honest songs" to date, Felicity will be hitting the road this spring on an East Cost Tour alongside Allie Dunn and Kelsey Blackstone, stopping by Boston, New York, Nashville, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, among other cities.
For the full tour routing, click here. As for "I Prefer You In My Head," you can now stream it by clicking here or by watching the official lyric video right below.
