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With a smoky voice and an affection for the vocal era, girl groups, and Brill Building pop,
Molly Burch's yearning indie pop tunes encompassed infatuation, defiance, and despair on her 2017 debut,
Please Be Mine. Inspired less by heartbreak and more by self-love, her third album, 2021's
Romantic Images, embraced a more sparkling, pop-forward sound produced with members of
Tennis.
Raised in Los Angeles by show business parents (her father was a writer/producer, her mother a casting director),
Burch grew up on a diet of classic film musicals and vocal legends like
Billie Holiday and
Nina Simone, and started singing as a preteen. She went on to study jazz vocal performance at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. After graduating, she relocated to Austin, Texas with a goal to write her own music and have a go at a music career. There, she reconnected with guitarist
Dailey Toliver, whom she had met in college. They recorded most of her full-length debut at
Dan Duszynski's studio in Dripping Springs, Texas in a single day, with minimal overdubs the following day. Captured Tracks released the album of reverb-washed love songs,
Please Be Mine, the week of Valentine's Day 2017.
She followed it in October 2018 with the equally stylized but more personal
First Flower, which was recorded in Austin with
Erik Wofford (
Adam Torres,
She Sir). Recorded by
Jarvis Taveniere (
Woods) and Will Patterson (
Sleep Good),
The Molly Burch Christmas Album offered a dozen holiday tunes, including two originals, in late 2019.
Burch was touring with indie pop group
Tennis in 2020 when she and her backing band (including
Toliver) accepted an invitation to head directly from the tour to
Tennis' base of Denver for recording sessions with members
Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley. Helping
Burch retool her sound to reflect a more confident mindset as well as a shared love of pop, the more synth- and dance-oriented
Romantic Images arrived on Captured Tracks in mid-2021 and featured a collaboration with
Wild Nothing. ~ Marcy Donelson