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Tacoma, WA-based songwriter Kye Alfred Hillig recently released a new single entitled “Ezekiel Bobbing For Apples.” The song is the debut release off his upcoming album The All-Night Costume Company, which will be released on March 4th. It sits between alternative-country and indie rock, carrying the tension and plainspoken urgency of a songwriter raised on punk rooms rather than polish.

Hillig has spent more than two decades working the margins of the Puget Sound music scene, balancing songwriting with the realities of work, responsibility, and long stretches outside the spotlight. Since stepping fully into his solo work in 2012, he’s released a deep catalog of records defined by sharp hooks and lyrical candor. His songs often land where discomfort and dark humor overlap, more interested in honesty than resolution. Lyrically, the new song sits with a kind of open-eyed vulnerability.

Hillig shares:

“It’s really a bit of singing up from the bottom of the well. Everything feels kind of screwed and hopeless at times, but the message is I am with you. There’s something freeing about saying that out loud.” 

Recorded at Ex Ex Studios in Seattle, the single was produced and mixed by Johnny Nails, capturing a band fully engaged and alert. Organ, guitar, and percussion interlock with purpose, giving the track momentum without crowding it. 

Stream “Ezekiel Bobbing for Apples” below and keep checking back for more from Kye Alfred Hillig!