Double Knot, by 𝔫𝔞𝔬𝔪𝔦 𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔯

Double Knot

by 𝔫𝔞𝔬𝔪𝔦 𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔯

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1.	Seasick 03:03	buy track
2.	Don't Get It 02:43	buy track
3.	Amelia 03:26	buy track
4.	Blue For You 03:29	buy track
5.	Burnout 03:01	buy track
6.	California Girl 03:06	buy track
7.	Makes Me Sick 02:54	buy track
8.	Neighborhood Freak 03:02	buy track
9.	Over 03:17	buy track
10.	Golden Boy 02:43	buy track
11.	What I Meant 03:50	buy track
12.	My French Summer 02:47	buy track

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Naomi Alligator is fed up. She’s sick of trying to make relationships work that have already run their course, and tired of sitting in a wintry apartment waiting for her life to kick into gear. On her forthcoming album Double Knot via Carpark Records, the modern folk singer/songwriter from Virginia attempts to unwind her life from all that is holding her back. In a way, it’s a coming-of-age record about shedding what no longer serves you and, ultimately, finding something like deliverance.

On the opening track, “Seasick,” Naomi Alligator is already in the midst of a sort of awakening. Right off the bat, she sings, “I don’t know what’s happened to me / It’s like I turned 16 / It’s like I grew to be 6-feet tall.” This is the announcement of a wide-eyed artist coming out of hibernation and into their own. Still, Naomi’s vocals ache with guilt and longing, belying the track’s playful catchiness. Longing for what? Maybe attention from a crush, but mostly a sunnier place to call home.

Naomi Alligator began writing Double Knot while living in Philadelphia during the height of the pandemic and the deterioration of a longterm romance. “I scream: How’d the hell I end up here?
/ I’m 1-inch tall, it’s crystal clear,” she chants on “Neighborhood Freak,” returning to height and size as an emotional barometer. When asked though, Naomi rejects the notion that Double Knot is a breakup album, or autobiographical at all. Moreso, she says, it’s a personal reckoning in which, “the minute before you make a big decision, you tally up the reasons why you don’t want to do what you’re doing anymore.”

That desire to turn the page expands to the production of the album as well. Naomi Alligator generally houses her narratives in beds of minimal, home-tracked instrumentation—influenced by the stripped-down poeticism of Joan Baez and Liz Phair’s Girly-Sound tapes. Double Knot finds Naomi continuing to hone the winning combination of guitar and banjo she established on 2021’s Concession Stand Girl EP. For Double Knot though, Naomi wanted a fuller, more dynamic sound: more instruments, more harmonies, more layering, more, more, more. Inspired by the impressionistic melodies of Animal Collective and MGMT, Naomi peppers in computer-generated synths throughout the album, most notably on the song “Burn Out.” These electronic flourishes augment the more grounding string instruments, arriving somewhere more ethereal than Naomi’s earlier work while still maintaining her warm songwriting.

If anything, Double Knot is a reminder that you can always pack up your bags, try something new, and change your life. As for Naomi Alligator herself? She moved west, to California.

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released July 1, 2022

All songs written and performed by Corrinne James
Guitar on Burnout by Nicholas Bairatchnyi
Mixed by Jordan Krimston
Mastered by Joe Lambert
Album cover photography by Matthew James-Wilson
Body paint by Matthew James-Wilson

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