Daiana Feuer on July 5th, 2018

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Tyson Kelly spent the last nine years touring the world as a John Lennon impersonator. Not a bad day job. The motivation might stem from hearing a steady soundtrack of 60s and 70s classics at home with his songwriting Hall of Famer dad, Tom Kelly, who wrote a string of major pop hits in the 80s.

While some know him as the best Beatle, others will recognize Tyson as one-third of the rock band King Washington, which emerged on the Los Angeles scene in 2012. Now Kelly has embarked on a solo project, and it’s quite a departure. His five-track EP, “No Signal,” utilizes synths and electronics to buttress emotional songs where the singer reflects on lost love. “I named the EP ‘No Signal’ because there is a bit of that theme throughout,” he says. “There’s five songs and each one touches on the feeling of friction and pain of rejection in one way or another.” Lead single “Girl, You’re So Money” is about slowing your roll and not rushing into things when love has taken hold of your heart. “The song is a simple message of waiting and restarting to save the love,” he explains. “In this case, I had fallen so hard in a very short amount of time, and we rushed into it.”

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