Dora Jar’s ‘Puppet’ Yearns For Open Spaces

It was pieced together in Alaska...

Dora Jar returns with pulsating new single ‘Puppet’.

Out now, the song seems to yearn for wide open spaces, perhaps reflective of her blossoming ambitions. Currently on tour with the 1975 – playing some enormous North American arenas – Dora Jar is making music for bigger crowds, and a different form of energy.

Having grown up in New York and California she’s used to contrasting cityscapes with the countryside, and this new single takes that dynamic a step further. There’s a hint of Neu! in the song’s rhythmic engine, that sense of never-ending travel.

Bubbling electronic pop akin to some of LCD Soundsystem’s more direct moments, ‘Puppet’ was constructed amid the expanse of Alaska. Looking back on its creation, Dora Jar comments…

‘Puppet’ came together earlier this year while I was off social media, in a remote part of Alaska. I wrote the lyrics in a cabin overlooking a river full of salmon who swim upstream in August to return to where they were born, lay their eggs and die.

Being off the internet my awareness shifted away from how I was perceived online to a strong feeling that everything around me was alive, and aware. The wood of the cabin walls was watching me as I stared at them in search of patterns, and the guitars we passed around seemed to tell their own stories.

Tune in now.

Photo Credit: Erica Snyder

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