As kd stated in a recent Hotline interview, she was actually ahead of schedule recording her new record. DRAG is schedule to hit the record stores on June 10th in North America. Dates may vary in different regions and different countries.
OG - How did you come up with the inspiration for, and name of, the record?
kd - Basically I've been interested in cigarette songs for a long time so I decided to do a bunch of cigarette songs. I was looking for names and actually a friend said "drag". I thought that was perfect because it has a lot of different connotations, the word alone, so do the songs. It very peripherally deals with cigarette smoking. It's not really about cigarette smoking; it's metaphorically about love and addiction and fixations, that sort of thing….being addicted to love, being mechanically or physically addicted to something.
There are so many songs with 'cigarettes' in them, how did you pick the ones you did?
Through melody and lyrics .. what I wanted. I went through a lot of songs.
What was the first song you picked for the record?
Peggy Lee's Don't Smoke In bed
Are you planning on touring with this record?
No - not at this time
