Video: Liv Slingerland, ‘Hey You’

Kevin Bronson on June 14th, 2022

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“Hey You,” the title track to singer-songwriter and guitar-slinger Liv Slingerland’s solo debut album, is one of those acid-tongued kiss-offs that doesn’t sound like it. She bounces merrily into moving on after a relationship that amounted to, as she sings, “Keepin’ you company instead of keepin’ me sane.”

The riff-spiked rocker is the follow-up to “An Entire Lifetime,” released in April as a fresh start for an artist who has spent substantial time as a side player (and for substantial people, such as Halsey, Olivia Rodrigo, Lauren Ruth Ward, Alex Lahey, Robert DeLong, Donna Missal, the Overcoats and Caroline Kingsbury).

“Hey You,” the album, is out Aug. 5 via Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. In a large way, it’s an homage to her father, who died in 2020.

“While I’ve been working on these songs for years, I hadn’t truly given my own music a full push before,” Slingerland says. “I felt that this was the best way to channel my grief while honoring what my dad had sacrificed in his life to support my pursuit of a career in music. Since my goal had always been to be a front person, I knew that this was the time to refocus — the time to make something happen.”

The title track comes with a trippy animated video by Rob Fidel.

||| Watch: The video for “Hey You”