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After over 150 days on tour in 2022 as her debut album, The Parts I Dread was released, Chicago-based songwriter and bassist Pictoria Vark felt untethered, as if simultaneously living two separate realities. “I was 23 and thrust into an abnormal, chaotic, and very public way of living” she says. “Focusing so heavily on playing live shows–these things with very explicit end dates–made me question if I was right to center my life around something so fleeting.”
On her new album Nothing Sticks she embarks on a journey to encapsulate that feeling through her dynamic, bass guitar-led sound: “This album is a reflection on the way all things end through the lens of being a musician.”
Nothing Sticks was written on a bass guitar first like her other work — but marks a significant leap in every aspect of its creation. Park assembled a team of producers including herself, Gavin Caine, and Bradford Krieger to bring these songs to life. Their combined strengths allowed them to have a focused energy as a production team during their time recording at Big Nice Studio, making the most out of Vark’s first studio outing.
“Everything we want to last, whether it’s a relationship, a moment, a career, or a way of life, will come to an inevitable end.” she states. But while everything is fleeting, everything on Nothing Sticks adheres together in a captivating, concrete, purposeful way—showing the beauty in inevitability and instability.
On her new album Nothing Sticks she embarks on a journey to encapsulate that feeling through her dynamic, bass guitar-led sound: “This album is a reflection on the way all things end through the lens of being a musician.”
Nothing Sticks was written on a bass guitar first like her other work — but marks a significant leap in every aspect of its creation. Park assembled a team of producers including herself, Gavin Caine, and Bradford Krieger to bring these songs to life. Their combined strengths allowed them to have a focused energy as a production team during their time recording at Big Nice Studio, making the most out of Vark’s first studio outing.
“Everything we want to last, whether it’s a relationship, a moment, a career, or a way of life, will come to an inevitable end.” she states. But while everything is fleeting, everything on Nothing Sticks adheres together in a captivating, concrete, purposeful way—showing the beauty in inevitability and instability.
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