Desire Line

Kate Douglas

JULY 1, 2022

Written & Performed by Kate Douglas

Produced by Idarose

Mixed by Megan McCormick
Mastered by Shelly Anderson, Black Lab Mastering

Cover photo by Derek Anthony Welte
Art direction by Sylver Wallace

With her first single "Desire Line," Kate Douglas explores the hypocrisy of loving someone with stranglehold strength.

"It's working as hard as you can to make another person stay in your life who perhaps isn't meant to be in your life," says Douglas. "I think of this as a fractal for other ways we cut desire lines through landscapes."

Desire lines, or desire paths, are trails of erosion made by human/animal shortcuts.

Adds Douglas, "There is a tension for me of how beautiful and tragic this strength of will is in the face of elements that are out of our control, whether we know it or not."

This is the first collaboration with producer Alexis Idarose Kesselman (TWICE, Becky G, Trevor Daniel) and features an all-femme production team, with mixing by Nashville-based artist Megan McCormick and mastering by Shelley Anderson of Black Lab Mastering (The Features, James Bear, Femke Weidema).

Kate's background in theater writing informs her lyric-driven, surrealist approach to indie pop. You can hear her rock-noir collaboration with Shayfer James, The Ninth Hour, streaming on all platforms.