Kelsey Lu - "I'm Not In Love"

It is something to be both invested into something and yet not committed. Where is the line between care and love and when does need overlap with desire. It’s a very gray area and with this cover Kelsey finds a way to wrap themself in those mists and gather the questions close enough to feel them twist in their palm.

Kelsey Lu was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and had a strict Jehovah's Witness upbringing. Both of Lu's parents are musicians: their father is a percussionist, their mother a pianist. Lu began studying classical composition at age 6, learning piano, violin, and cello.  At age 18, Lu left their family home to attend the University of North Carolina School of the Arts on a scholarship. A year later, they dropped out of the school. Kelsey Lu recorded their debut EP, Church, in a church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. During this time, they toured with the band Wet as their opening act. They released Church in 2016. They released their debut album, Blood, in 2019. In that year, they also released Blood Transfusion, a collection of remixes of tracks from Blood.

So today, the gray gathering around me, I choose Kelsey Lu’s cover of "I'm Not In Love" as my, breathe in, dream out, close your eyes, song for a, keep walking, like quicksand in the path, steady on, Tuesday.