RUTH RADELET - THE OTHER SIDE [EP]

Ruth Radelet is a singer, songwriter, and musician with diverse influences ranging from Joni Mitchell to Frank Ocean. Best known as the frontwoman of Chromatics, she is now pursuing a solo career following the band’s breakup in August 2021. Chromatics’ music has been used in numerous films, television series, ad campaigns and fashion shows, and was notably featured on the soundtrack for Nicolas Winding Refn’s cult film Drive. Chromatics performed live at the Chanel Spring-Summer 2013 Ready-to-Wear runway show in Paris, and appeared on screen in multiple episodes of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return. Ruth was recently featured on a Chromatics remix of the Weeknd’s #1 hit single, Blinding Lights. She continues to make music, and is currently writing new material and working on various collaborations.

“The Other Side represents a side of my personality as an artist that most people haven’t seen until now. It also represents my coming out the other side of a traumatic experience, gathering what I could from “Before” and figuring out how to exist “After.” This record was forged in the fire of a transformative two-year period during which I lost almost everything, including my father who was a huge influence on me. Most of the songs were written just before I was caught up in a storm of big changes, and they were all finished just as life started to feel sweet again. It feels right to share some of the last chapter before moving into the next, and though it’s a melancholy record, for me The Other Side is a step into a bigger and brighter future.

“Stranger” is about a specific kind of loneliness that I have only felt in Los Angeles. Although the song is very much about longing, it's more about a place than a person. The lyric “I could never hold you in my hands” is about the feeling of always being on the outside looking in, of the city never fully opening its doors to me.”

- Ruth Radelet