NEW-YORK BASED SINGER-SONGWRITER ALISON CLANCY’S LATEST SINGLE “THE VALLEY” OUT TODAY ON INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES, CA (WEDNESDAY MAY 7, 2025) – Independent Project Records (IPR) and singer-songwriter Alison Clancy announce that her latest single, “The Valley,” is released today via MRI & Proper Music to all digital music platforms.

Alison Clancy’s haunting new track reflects the questions and ambiguities that just keep coming. Co-written and co-produced with Stephen Masucci of The Lost Patrol and engineered by Larry Alexander (David Bowie, Lou Reed, Diana Ross), the single is an expansive soundscape that shimmers with the melodic nostalgia of a rainy day, laced with a twinge of foreboding strangeness. Clancy’s voice sounds fragile as it drifts along the razor’s edge between vulnerability and power. Are her words questions or statements? Tension hums like a storm on the horizon, but pain, pleasure and release are washed over with piano cascading into misted fantasy.

A multi-gifted artist, when she’s not weaving adventurous sounds, Alison is busy dancing with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where she wrote this song in the basement rehearsal rooms. Alison Clancy released her IPR debut, 3-song EP Mutant Gifts in 2022. Composed and recorded when Clancy was invited to live as an artist in residence in St. John’s Church in NYC’s West Village, the EP was mixed by Noah Georgeson (producer for artists such as Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart). Of Mutant Gifts, Backseat Mafia said it’s “expansive, avant-garde, brooding, it’s a helluva way to announce your arrival.” amNY wrote about Alison’s career as a dancer for the The Metropolitan Opera and a musician in 2024 here.  

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Founded in 1980 by musician and artist Bruce Licher, Independent Project Records and its sister entity Independent Project Press are known for their instantly recognizable hand-printed record covers for bands including Camper Van Beethoven, For Against, Polvo, R.E.M., Savage Republic, Silversun Pickups, Stereolab and more. Aside from creating much of the artwork on his vintage hand-fed letterpress equipment, Licher was nominated for a Grammy Award for his design work on the IPR released debut album from For Against. In 2020, the label was relaunched by both Licher and Jeffrey Clark with new and archival releases and is distributed by MRI/The Orchard in USA & Canada & via Proper Music Group for the rest of the world. IPR is based in Bishop, California, at the base of the Eastern Sierra Mountains.

 
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