Katie Malco inaugurates a new string of single releases with ‘Fatal Attraction’. The UK songwriter’s ace debut album merged lyrical insight with beautiful use of melody, forever burrowing down into her feels. Since then Katie Malco has hit the road, and those shows have enabled her to build a community of like-minds.
Pushing ahead, the Northampton-based artist is lining up a string of single releases, each blessed with a female / non-binary guest. The British artist played SXSW a few years back, and shared a bill with Laura Stevenson. The two kept in touch, vowing to work on something – and now the stars have aligned.
‘Fatal Attraction’ takes its cues from the famed 1987 film, and this sense of narrative gives the song its intrinsic structure. Songwriting with the slenderness of a spider’s web, it plays with tension and release, the two vocalists intertwining perfectly. Katie Malco comments.
.. I lived alone throughout lockdown and became quite obsessed with erotic thrillers.
I have a monthly newsletter where I do a rambling deep dive on a classic / weird movie each month, so I guess I’m into leftfield / cult movies in general. However, the erotic thriller is such a strange genre of movie, and one that could only ever have existed in the era it did. I watched basically every movie starring Michael Douglas, including the most classic of all the erotic thrillers – Fatal Attraction.
Strangely, I realised that Fatal Attraction might be one of the most relatable m.