Solo Career, the beguiling bedroom-pop project of Body Type’s Annabel Blackman, has shared her debut album, Interior Delirium, out now via Dinosaur City.
Interior Delirium is a glorious and sly synth pop record about the absurdity of identity – how we perform for others and ourselves, the puppetry that plays out across culture, and the freak impulses that startle our sense of self. It’s fitting for a project that was borne from musician Annabel Blackman’s interest in the uncanny and reflective possibilities of persona. “The album revolves around awkwardness, earnestness, gripe-picking, lustful stewing, play and self-deprecation” says Blackman. If her first solo EP The Sentimentalist (2021) was a dreamy strut, Interior Delirium is an unruly waltz, where foggy, late-night longing merges with stomping, hilarious, cyborg satire.
Interior Delirium was made in-between tours and sessions for Blackman’s group Body Type, and served as a counterpoint to playing and writing in a band. She was able to explore a radically different mode of making music – where she was free to obsess and fixate, and let experimentation and imperfection be. As Blackman puts it: “Solo Career is part control freak, part embellished mess.” The album was performed, recorded, and mixed entirely by Blackman, and marks the release of songs that she’s been tinkering with for many years.
“I’d pick up an instrument, make a blip or blop and follow the thread until a song took shape,” says Blackman. “I started one of the songs almost ten years ago, picked it up and finished it 6 years later, played it at shows for a couple years, and then got so tired of working on it by myself that I just let the jagged edges be, because polished stuff isn’t for me anyway.”
In Interior Delirium, alienation is the presiding texture of modern life, manifesting in the most ridiculous way. How can one stave off the dread? Blackman gives us a tart tasting platter of what’s on offer.
Despite endless alienations and futile cures, connection is still found and fought for. Interior Delirium has an enveloping charm: it’s a beguiling and twisty record, full of great, scrappy pleasures and droll affection.
Release: July 11th, 2025, Dinosaur City Records