L.A. indie musician and touring bassist for Claud, Goblynne (they/them) releases debut album Hot! : ( - an art-pop record about the delicious, insane horrors of trying to be a girl - TODAY!

In 2021, Goblynne (né Molly Kirschenbaum) won the Hollywood Encore Producers’ Award for their one-person show Hot! : (. Using songs from their performance to create the album, Hot! : ( explores the tenacity of performative femininity, even for those who reject it. “As a nonbinary person, I have often felt like femininity was something I either chose to engage with or was forced to engage with,” Kirschenbaum says. “I ended up creating this character in my head that this project was about, this person who embodies all the aspects of Western American beauty, blonde, blue-eyed, but a little tortured, a little haunted, and decided to try to free them from their body with this album.”

For Kirschenbaum, that meant turning their multi-instrumental, vocal, and sound mixing skills into art pop so shiny it doubles as a mirror. Kirschenbaum, alongside co-producer Adam Rochelle, crafted a smart pop landscape a la Caroline Polachek.