Daiana Feuer on December 23rd, 2015

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Alle Norton has a new Cellars album, “Phases,” coming April 15 on Manifesto Records, which sees her taking a darker yet still bouncy turn from this year’s “Lovesick.” The first single, “Nighttime Girl,” is not a love song. It was the first song Norton wrote upon moving from Austin to Los Angeles while dealing with a complicated, never-ending break-up and she told herself she would not write another love song. She explains, “… which is where the line ‘I don’t need love where I’m going’ comes from. I was determined to find my own way in this new place, and the song is about the struggle of figuring out who you are; the dissonant human feeling of both self­-confidence and self­-consciousness at the same time, and both sure and unsure of what one wants in life.” Instead, the funky, ebullient track centers on being a “nocturnal woman in a daytime world.” The song and album were produced by Ariel Pink, who added his eccentric twist to Norton’s tracks, and brought in some friends to play, Dam-Funk, BJ Miller from HEALTH, and Tendai “Baba” Maraire of Shabazz Palaces, for extra magic. If “Nighttime Girl” is any indication, the 10-track album takes Norton’s love of the 1980s, synths and drums, to an extraterrestrial dimension.

||| Stream: “Nighttime Girl”

||| Previously: “Lovesick”