Christian Lee Hutson Shares New Song Ft. Katy Kirby
Beauty School' perfectly soundtracks the fleeting moments of summer, with Katy Kirby’s backing vocals elevating the song’s disarming pop-punk poolside folk rock. Of the track, Christian says, “Beauty school is a love song to myself and to you. To all the people we’ve been and to all the people we will be.”
Paradise Pop. 10 is co-produced with three of Hutson’s longtime collaborators: 4x GRAMMY winner Phoebe Bridgers, GRAMMY-nominated songwriter & producer Marshall Vore and GRAMMY-nominated engineer & multi-instrumentalist Joseph Lorge. The album also features guest vocals from Bridgers, Katy Kirby, and Maya Hawke - another frequent collaborator whose universally lauded new album credits Hutson as producer and co-writer.
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Paradise
Pop. 10 is Hutson’s first
release since 2022’s Quitters, which saw him earn
widespread critical acclaim. Produced by Phoebe
Bridgers and Conor Oberst, it was
the follow up to his dazzling 2020 debut, Beginners,
praised by Pitchfork as “a stunningly
empathetic study of human frailties.”
Recorded in
the depths of winter at Brooklyn’s Figure 8
Studio, the close-knit talents from Los Angeles
hunkered down to craft a brilliantly constructed and tender
album. A captivating, breezy charm permeates every track of
Paradise Pop. 10, with each song hooked
around Hutson’s warm, earthy vocals and dexterous
story-telling. Whether fragile finger-picking folk or
rousing, beachy power pop, these songs are informed by a
sense of creeping melancholy about the place Hutson has
spent most of his life; in the lead up to the writing and
recording of the album the sprawling, inscrutable city of
Los Angeles had become haunted in his mind. A move to the
East Coast, and the “eyes up” ity of New York, was
required to refresh his memory banks. “I wanted to make
an eyes up record. A looking forward record,” he
explains.
Paradise Pop. 10 takes its name from a real life “town” set deep in the woods of Parke County, Indiana, near where Hutson spent some of his childhood. There, just past the population sign, you’ll find a row of 5 houses on one side of the road and a cemetery on the other.