New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today May Rio - NYC's May Rio Sembera of Poppies - announces her solo debut album Easy Bammer, set for release on June 25th via Dots Per Inch Music. Produced by Tony or Tony and mastered by
Sarah Register (Ariana Grande, Yaeji, The Shins), Easy Bammer is inspired in part by time spent touring with Poppies, as well as the year the world went into lockdown. On her debut solo album, May turns months of isolation into a curious & hyper real reflection on memory of a time in New York City before stay-at-home-orders and lukewarm take-out - reflections on a time when staying at home & thinking felt like an unreasonable request of the cosmos. Easy Bammer gives its listener a chance to experience the warmth & quiet laughter of reflection; it does so in a time otherwise reserved for most as an endless cycle of waiting for new headlines.
To celebrate the announcement, May is also sharing the lead single "Butter," a warm track about finding yourself with what you want, and not feeling the composure or satisfaction that was imagined in the state of lack that preceded. Listen to "
Butter" via NYLON, who call it "gorgeous" and say "with melting, glowing synths and a melody that skips into place when the beat kicks in. Rio sings about surreal-feeling things like long stretches of summer and wasting time away in front of the television, and her lyrics sound like adult nursery rhymes."
May told NYLON, "I was house sitting in
Texas when I wrote "Butter." I was thinking about this idea (myth) that a lot of people have which is: if you only had an empty desk, and everything crossed off your to-do list, it would be so easy to sit down and write. But it's not that simple, there's not really an "if only" that works like some magic formula. In "
Butter" I was confronting this. Before I wrote this song, I wasn't doing much on piano. Being the most synth-heavy song on the album, as well as the opening track, it's a first look at a new sound and project for me."
