Premiere: Carmen Perry Shares New Single “Photos”
Debut Solo Album Eyes Like a Mirror Out June sixth by way of Mtn Laurel Recording Co.
Jun 02, 2025
Philadelphia-based indie singer/songwriter and musician Carmen Perry is probably going greatest identified for her time fronting the jangly indie rock and energy pop outfit Bear in mind Sports activities. Perry first moved to Philly a decade in the past after faculty to pursue music. In these 10 years, she’s additionally steadily amassed a set of songs that make up her forthcoming debut solo album, Eyes Like a Mirror, due out later this week.
Eyes Like a Mirror acts as a collage of reflections and recollections from Perry’s previous 10 years, however additionally it is deeply formed by the neighborhood Perry has constructed round her throughout that point. Perry co-produced the album alongside Friendship drummer and Expensive Life Information co-founder Michael Cormier-O’Leary, and audio engineer Lucas Knapp (Friendship, Hour, Florry). Collaborators from throughout the Philly music scene contributed to the album’s sunny and winding sheen, together with Perry’s Bear in mind Sports activities bandmates Catherine Dwyer and Jack Washburn, 2nd Grade’s Peter Gill, Friendship’s Jon Samuels, and Boosegumps’ Heeyoon Gained.
Perry shared the primary single from the album, “Readjust,” earlier this 12 months, adopted by her second single, “Not At this time,” final month. At this time, she’s sharing the album’s newest observe, “Photos,” premiering with Underneath the Radar.
“Photos” is a reflective and time-worn people strummer, constructing atop a easy two-chord sample with looping sun-dappled guitar traces. Perry churns away because the winding melodies overlap and blur collectively, ultimately reshaping the observe right into a bleary haze as Perry’s keening vocal confessionals fall away. When Perry’s voice waltzes again into the image on the track’s finish it’s with a newfound assurity and backbone. Her lyrics see her in the end sorting via the recollections of a relationship and selecting to maneuver ahead: “And it’s good to know we held on / And possibly it’s time they got here down / I’ll put them in a field and transfer on.”
Perry says of the observe, “‘Photos’ is about coping with all of the bodily ephemera left over from a relationship, however realizing how modified you’ve turn out to be internally, and how one can’t take your guts down off the wall.”
Try the track and video beneath, together with Perry’s upcoming tour dates. Eyes Like a Mirror is due out on June sixth by way of Mtn Laurel Recording Co.
June 13 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s – Document Launch Present
June 14 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool – Document Launch Present
June 15 – Catskill, NY – Avalon
June 16 – Portland, ME – SPACE Gallery
June 17 – Greenfield, MA – Final Ditch Bar
June 18 – Rochester, NY – Bookeater
June 19 – Toronto, ON – Collective Arts
June 20 – Cleveland OH – The Birdhouse
June 21 – Pittsburgh, PA – SkyZone 2
