Premiere: Mal Devisa Shares New Single “You Go To My Head”
New Album Palimpsesa is Out July thirtieth through Topshelf Information
Jul 29, 2025
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Poet, musician, and singer/songwriter Deja Carr debuted her musical venture below the title Mal Devisa nearly a decade in the past, releasing her album Kiid in 2016. After a prolonged break, Carr returned with a handful of recent singles this yr, together with a pair of recent tracks earlier this month, “To Be Unwilling” and “O Ivory,” teasing her new album, Palimpsesa. The file is an anthology that includes Carr’s renditions of previous requirements, re-recorded variations of a few of her earliest songs, and a bunch of unreleased materials. The outcomes run the stylistic gamut between jazz, people, and hip-hop, with Carr’s lyrical poetics drifting atop loop-based rhythms and liberatory rock dramatics.
The complete album is out tomorrow, July thirtieth, through Topshelf Information, however forward of the total launch, Carr is sharing an early take heed to considered one of its highlights, “You Go To My Head,” premiering with Beneath the Radar.
“You Go To My Head” is a jazz commonplace that’s been recorded through the years by dozens of artists, together with touchstones like Bing Crosby, Billie Vacation, Frank Sinatra, and Bob Dylan. Carr’s tackle the observe evokes the timeless qualities of Ella Fitzgerald’s model however finds Carr occupying her personal house, along with her singular vocal abilities guided by some watery keys and spacious jazz drumming. Carr is the spotlit star, her vocals smokey, simmering, and placing. The observe’s standout second comes as Carr dips into her decrease register earlier than climbing steadily to a superbly understated decision, highlighting her wealthy vocal vary and the honeyed timbre of her voice, earlier than she lets the keys carry the track to its finish.
Carr says of the observe, “‘You Go To My Head’ is considered one of my favourite requirements. The primary time I sang it, I used to be on the Litchfield Jazz Camp in Connecticut, and I simply fell totally in love with how candy and intoxicating it was, and is. It’s a timeless track.”
Try the track beneath. Palimpsea is due out in every single place tomorrow, July thirtieth, through Topshelf Information.