Earlier this year, the Nashville-based musician Katy Kirby released the impressive single “Tap Twice” and now she’s back with the announcement of a full-length album, Cool Dry Place, that’s due out next year. Today, Kirby is sharing “Traffic!,” a driving folk-rock song where Kirby’s voice is digitally inflected in the chorus, a processed speed-up to keep pace with her wordy lyrics: “High times, that’s right, red-white, black and blue/ Nobody has it better than you,” she sings. “Winning in a landslide, a high tide, running out of room/ Nobody got there faster than you.”

Kirby explained the song as such:

I’d gotten involved with someone objectively cooler and hotter than me, but was getting annoyed with how wrapped up he was in his own basic angst and mild life setbacks. Especially when it seemed so obvious that he’d been spared from much of human suffering’s broad spectrum. The song turned into something like a meditation on what counts as actual injury, like a rant about material vs. immaterial damage. What right do I have (nevermind the person I wrote this to, or everyone else) to self-interest, when the damage I sustain generally seems to roll right off me, like a cute lil’ Wile E Coyote running ‘round in the twilight of democracy, being absolutely f’ing fine.

Check it out below.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Eyelids”
02 “Juniper”
03 “Peppermint”
04 “Traffic!”
05 “Tap Twice”
06 “Secret Language”
07 “Portals”
08 “Cool Dry Place”
09 “Fireman”

Cool Dry Place is out 2/19 via Keeled Scales.