Amy Klein

Amy Klein may have come to musical prominence as a member of Titus Andronicus, but she was an artist long before that. The New Jersey native’s first love is and has always been poetry. Now, after performing in bands like Leda and Hilly Eyes, the indie rock poet is lettering her “punk prose” shine with her debut solo effort, Fire.

Due out June 10th from Don Giovanni Records, Fire is preceded today by the lead single “American City”. The track reveals Klein to be a poet in the same vein as the great folk musicians. There’s the dusty stride of the guitar followed closely by the trickling sighs of a piano, both pushing onward over driven drumming. But it’s in the lyricism that locks Klein in step with the Springsteens and Youngs of the world as she tells tales of the hopes and failures structured into the American dream. “So you can let me down/ But I’m never gonna let myself down,” she sings out defiantly. “And you can try to push me around/ But I’m never going to bring myself down.” Listen in above. - Consequence of Sound

Amy Klein, Jersey songstress formerly of indie/punk act Titus Andronicus, is stepping out on her own with her debut solo album Fire, set to be released June 10 through Don Giovanni Records. Since leaving Titus in 2011, Klein’s released music with Leda and Hilly Eye, but now it’s all ears on her.

Amy’s blasting out of the gate with the piercing denunciation of a duplicitous lover in “Yes Men.” The song opens to a deceptively blank Klein softly teasing “I got the right kind of paranoia” before she reemerges remorseless, and makes her triumphant exit howling “You better find somebody else” over echoing cries of guitar. “Yes Men” is the biting follow up to Klein’s lead folk single “American City,” and promises that Fire is aptly titled. - Spin

It’s been five years since the New Jersey musician Amy Klein left Titus Andronicus, and she’s made music with Leda and Hilly Eye in the years since. But some of us still have fond memories about her run with Titus, and if you’re among that number, please join us in getting excited about Klein being about to release her solo album Fire. We’ve already heard two of her songs of tuneful, incisive DIY fuzz-pop, “American City” and “Yes Men,” and we can now stream the entire LP. Check it out below, via Consequence Of Sound. - Stereogum