Fever Queen - The World of Fever Queen - New LP Record 2020 First To Knock Vinyl - Chicago Rock / Punk

Fever Queen is the music and moods of Chicago-based songwriter Eleanor Rose Lee. On her debut album, The World of Fever Queen, Lee conjures up stark, psychy sounds and knockout melodies that cohere into a singular, one-woman vision of love, dreams, and hesitations

Journaling her entire life, Lee sees music as an extension of a larger project. The World of Fever Queen is a document of her life traveling and working across America. Mid-century melodies draw upon Lee’s childhood singing in choirs in the Midwest. Sparse instrumentation evokes cold nights of getting weird in Chicago’s DIY scene. The album’s surfy wash taps into the bleached energy Lee found in her days farming in Hawaii and cutting hair in California. Torch songs, like “Love Last,” are set in America’s burnt-out husk, along dark highways and desolate lake shores. Layered vocals and two cover interludes—Brenda Lee’s “I’m Sorry” and Lee Hazlewood’s “For One Moment”—ratchet up the atmosphere even further.

Lee prizes emotion above all else. And through her work as a songwriter and adept multi-instrumentalist, she elevates life’s emotions into a vibrant, and palpable, psychedelic world. The World of Fever Queen is Lee’s intimate journal made into sound.

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released September 10, 2020

All songs written, performed, and recorded by Eleanor Rose Lee—except "I'm Sorry" (originally performed by Brenda Lee, written by Dub Albritten & Ronnie Self) and "For One Moment" (originally performed and written by Lee Hazlewood) // Mike Winegardner played bass on “You, You,” “Night Vision,” “Good Mistake,” “Love Last,” “Charmer,” and “Demolition” // Johnny Aloha played electronics and hand percussion on “Cerulean,” “Night Vision,” “Good Mistake,” and “Love Last” // Matt Dewine mixed The World of Fever Queen at Pieholden Studios. He played bass on "For One Moment" // Carl Saff mastered the record // Jacket design by Whim World // Jacket photograph by Evan Jenkins // Distributed by First To Knock, Chicago // Copyright Eleanor Rose Lee, 2020