Doomin' Sun

The collaborative album by Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner tells compelling and rarely heard stories, but doesn’t reach the same highs as their respective solo work.

Bachelor's Doomin' Sun is an ode to the complexities and joy of love and friendship

The new collaborative project highlights the complementary talents of Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen…

Each song pirouettes on the emotional chasm between intimate, physical union, and lonesome psychological vulnerability.

Doomin' Sun is the debut of Bachelor, a collaboration between two esteemed indie singer/songwriters with D.I.Y. roots: Ellen Kempner, leader of Palehound, and Melina Duterte, who makes music as Jay Som.

Palehound's Ellen Kempner and Jay Som's Melina Duterte were already big fans of each other before meeting backstage at a Sacramento show in...

Bachelor is a new collaboration from two of indie’s most expressive and acclaimed songwriters of recent years: Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound. Fans could likely already see that this was a match made in heaven.

This Bachelor album Doomin' Sun was written during a shared (pre-Covid) TV marathon – and in a good way, you can tell

Bachelor is a collaboration between Palehound's Ellen Kempner and Jay Som's Melina Duterte. On Doomin' Sun, they join seamlessly and skillfully.

Doomin’ Sun by Bachelor album review by Adam Fink. The project of Melina Duterte AKA: Jay Som And Ali Kempner AKA: Palehound, drops 5/28