Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out

by Paula Kelley

Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 March 2026
  • Label: Self-Released
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:39
  • Community rating: 4.25/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Singer-songwriter Paula Kelley returns with 'Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out', a beautifully orchestrated collection of chamber pop. The album features Kelley's strong melodic songwriting augmented by lush arrangements of strings, woodwinds, and horns. The lyrics are bittersweet and introspective, resulting in a sophisticated and emotionally resonant pop record.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Party Line (3:30)
  2. Static (2:57)
  3. You Are Stars (5:19)
  4. Freight (3:40)
  5. All I Wanna Do (3:22)
  6. The Girl Who Never Was (5:58)
  7. God Will Someone Tell Me (3:32)
  8. Everybody's On To Me (3:04)
  9. The Takedown (2:53)
  10. The Denial (3:11)
  11. The Night (6:09)

Credits

  • Aaron Tap - guitars, bass, vocals, small keyboards
  • ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY PAULA KELLEY (WORM KID MUSIC - ascap)*
  • Angie Shyr - violins
  • Brenton and Jacqui Edgecombe at String Fever Studio - violins, viola, cello
  • Eric Skodis - drums & vocals
  • EXCEPT “ALL I WANNA DO” WRITTEN BY B.WILSON/M.LOVE (BROTHER PUBLISHING - bmi)
  • Lilly Aycud - trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone
  • Paula Kelley - acoustic guitar, lead guitar, piano, rhodes, vocals, synthesizers, percussion, string, horn, woodwind, and vocal arrangements
  • Probyn Gregory - french horn
  • Rory Dempsey & John Thomasson - contrabass
  • Shoshana Klein - oboe, english horn
  • String Section - jack krumbein, anna cummins, laena myers-ionita, jenny takamatsu, tom vos, matt fish

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