Josaleigh Pollett Is Haunted By Poltergeist Featured
- Written by Marky Edison
Josaleigh Pollett Is Haunted By Poltergeist
Salt Lake City’s Josaleigh Pollett returns with ‘Radio Player’, an electronics-infused and poltergeist-inspired new single. Here, Josaleigh is reunited with long-time collaborator Jordan Watko (Crowd Shy) for the first time since Jordan’s relocation to Japan, making this their first recorded output since 2023’s highly acclaimed ‘In the Garden, By the Weeds’, which NPR Music’s Bob Boilen featured on All Songs Considered.
Despite the distance between them, the pair opted to make their first cross-continent collaboration more ambitious and exploratory than what had come before. Merging analogue atmospherics, indie rock drive, and pop melodies, ‘Radio Player’ feels haunting, claustrophobic, and cathartic.
Speaking on their return, Josaleigh comments “Radio Player is a song about memory and fear, loosely based on seeing the movie Poltergeist at too young an age. It is a journey through the hallways of childhood that we leave a light on within. A pink light flickers on and beckons the listener through, releasing them changed and covered in ectoplasm five minutes later”.
