{"id":45480,"date":"2021-11-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=45480"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:07:09","slug":"premiere-dropper-lead-single-dont-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/premiere-dropper-lead-single-dont-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropper Seeks Personal Growth with Lead Single &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/963b3892bed24c641fc8ba440070a59d-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45479\"\/><figcaption>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cirstyburton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cirsty Burton<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.droppermusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dropper<\/a> is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Andrea Scanniello, who finally steps into the spotlight as a vocalist and songwriter after many years playing guitar, bass or keys in other projects. A veteran of Brooklyn\u2019s indie rock scene, Scanniello previously played in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/jessica-louise-dye-of-high-waisted-details-sophomore-lp-sick-of-saying-sorry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">High Waisted<\/a> and Stuyedeyed, and has filled out the line-ups of TVOD, Russian Baths and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/rsvp-here-suo-bartends-listen-bars-virtual-happy-hour-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saara Untracht-Oakner<\/a> (Boytoy, SUO)\u2019s solo projects, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She comes from a long line of musicians and has played music since childhood, but says she \u201cwas always too shy to show people music that I was writing. I was like, well I\u2019ll just play guitar, I\u2019ll play keys. It\u2019s fine. I don\u2019t mind being in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is in the background no longer. Joining longtime collaborators Jono Bernstein (also of High Waisted), Yukary Morishima and Larry Scanniello, Dropper releases their first LP <em><a href=\"https:\/\/levelmusic.lnk.to\/DontTalktoMe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Don\u2019t Talk To Me<\/a><\/em> on February 11, 2022, and they&#8217;re premiering their first-ever single from the project, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/levelmusic.lnk.to\/VzKqrK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Don\u2019t Worry<\/a>,\u201d today on <em>Audiofemme<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=700083302\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/droppernyc.bandcamp.com\/track\/dont-worry\">Don&#39;t Worry by Dropper<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album is two years in the making, written and recorded pre-COVID, something Scanniello patiently sat on while she awaited the return of live music. \u201cI don\u2019t want to release anything if I can\u2019t play a show,\u201d she said. \u201cI [didn\u2019t] want to put it out in the middle of the pandemic, because we\u2019re so new, that I just didn\u2019t want it to get lost in the Internet shuffle.\u201d The band will have the opportunity to preview the album on a handful of Midwest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droppermusic.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tour dates<\/a> with Habibi later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The record lays bare Scanniello\u2019s personal journey through her twenties in nine tracks. She wrote it while she scraped by with a series of service industry jobs and all that comes with them: the late nights, the drinking, the shallow friendships born of participation in a scene. What started as an exercise in healing after a bad break-up became more introspective, a personal inventory of life thus far, the habits that weren\u2019t serving her and the things she\u2019d like to change about herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor a while I was kind of caught up,\u201d she says. \u201cGoing out too much, partying too much, and then being anxious because you\u2019re partying too much, and not feeling really connected to anything you\u2019re doing, general bad feelings.\u201d She laughs. \u201cTrying to work through that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the band\u2019s press release, they say they write music for \u201cPeople who have worked in the service industry too long and become curmudgeons at the ripe old age of 26. People who are lonely yet want to be left alone. People who drink because they are sad but also sad because they drink. Bisexuals with crumbs in their bed. Optimistic pessimists. Those with seasonal allergies. But overwhelmingly for people who, in lieu of being crushed by the eternal weight of existence, choose to scream internally with a smile upon their face.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it lands squarely at this nexus, emotionally astute in a way that speaks to Scanniello\u2019s self-awareness and chops as a songwriter. \u201cDon\u2019t Worry\u201d is peak Dropper, in that it encompasses the entire weight of the album with these words: \u201cI do it to myself.\u201d The track negotiates the happy medium between what Scanniello calls \u201csad girl singer-songwriter kind of stuff\u201d (your Angel Olsens and Waxahatchees) and the heavier, psychier aspects of the Brooklyn music scene, with nods to all the bands Scanniello has lent her talents to. It hits a nerve emotionally, but one can imagine the energy of a raucous, PBR-soaked crowd growing as the track\u2019s energy builds from the opening licks to the multi-faceted explosion of sound that drops in after the bridge. The irony is that it\u2019s exactly this kind of scene that led Scanniello\u2019s songwriting to this place to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She says this track particularly speaks to \u201cthe amount of times in my life I woke up hungover, being like what the fuck am I doing with my life? But then realizing it\u2019s my fault, these are choices that I\u2019m making, and I could easily change these things but I\u2019m choosing not to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This type of reflection and self-realization is frequently the catalyst for the type of change she\u2019s referring to, a journey I imagine we\u2019ll see play out alongside Dropper\u2019s journey as a band. In the meantime, you might bask in the sharp empathy of this first offering, that you\u2019re not the only one who feels this way.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Follow Dropper on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/droppernyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/droppernyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a> for ongoing updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropper is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Andrea Scanniello, who finally steps into the spotlight as a vocalist and songwriter after many years playing guitar, bass or keys in other projects. A veteran of Brooklyn\u2019s indie rock scene, Scanniello previously played in High Waisted and Stuyedeyed, and has filled out the line-ups of TVOD, Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":45479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,305,567],"tags":[12776,32,9430,7006,7410,9362],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/963b3892bed24c641fc8ba440070a59d-e1636729099933.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45486,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45480\/revisions\/45486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}