Katie Von Schleicher was an intern at Ba Da Bing records when her boss invited her to make a cassette that the label would put out — and she more than took him up on the offer. After painstakingly putting together a self-produced, self-engineered mixtape ingeniously titled Bleaksploitation, Von Schleicher garnered enough interest in the project to justify releasing the album on vinyl. Not too shabby for an intern making good on a favor from her boss.
Spurred on by that initial success, Katie is now releasing her official debut, Sh*tty Hits via the label where she used to work, and today she’s shared the lead single, a soaring, scratchy anthem called “Paranoia” that floats through about five different phases before settling in a shimmering blues-rock groove. It’s full of doomsday euphoria that she twists into a warped, classic rock spiral, then sends it shooting back toward the light.
Von Schleicher recorded this album on a tape machine in the Maryland house she grew up in, and it delves into the confusion, identity struggles, and fear that everyone molts through while growing up. Watch the Matt Strickland-directed video for “Paranoia” above and check out the full tracklist below.
Sh*tty Hits Tracklist:
1. “The Image”
2. “Midsummer”
3. “Paranoia”
4. “Soon”
5. “Nothing”
6. “Mary”
7. “Life’s A Lie”
8. “Isolator
9. “Hold”
10. “Going Down”
11. “Sell It Back”
Sh*tty Hits is out 7/28 via Ba Da Bing Records. Pre-order it here.
