Vinyl Record
Princess Chelsea - The Loneliest Girl
Princess Chelsea - The Loneliest Girl on LP vinyl. A 2018 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2018
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2018 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
The Loneliest Girl is Princess Chelsea's 2018 album of bright surfaces and uneasy emotional weather. Coming after the retro-futurist sadness of The Great Cybernetic Depression and the covers project Aftertouch, it finds Chelsea Nikkel working with a wider pop frame while keeping the theatrical oddness that made Lil' Golden Book distinctive. The year matters because the record arrived before the later mental-health recovery arc of Everything Is Going To Be Alright, yet it already sounds preoccupied with performance, isolation and the strange labor of looking fine. I Love My Boyfriend is the runaway entry point, a song whose grin never quite settles into sincerity or sarcasm. Around it, The Deer With the Golden Lights, Good Enough, The Pretty Ones, Wasting Time, The Loneliest Girl, I Miss My Man, It's Nothing, Respect the Labourers, Cigarette, Growing Older and All I Need to Do move through bigger choruses, 80s and 90s pop shadows, girl-group echoes, grunge-adjacent weight and Princess Chelsea's usual deadpan composure. The record is catchy, but it is not emotionally simple. What makes The Loneliest Girl endure is the tension between theatrical pop pleasure and social exhaustion. It sounds like a room full of mirrors: romance, self-image, work, aging and persona reflecting back in slightly distorted form. It is one of the strongest bridges between Princess Chelsea's cult debut language and her more openly restorative 2020s writing.
The Loneliest Girl matters because it widened Princess Chelsea's sound without flattening her strangeness. In 2018, it gave her catalogue a bigger, more immediate pop album while preserving the ambiguity that makes her writing linger. For collectors, it is the record that connects The Cigarette Duet-era cult appeal to the later recognition around Everything Is Going To Be Alright.
This is a key middle-period Princess Chelsea title. Collectors should hear it between Lil' Golden Book and Everything Is Going To Be Alright: the first supplies the miniature storybook world, this album expands the hooks and emotional scale, and the 2022 record turns toward recovery. The draw is I Love My Boyfriend plus a much fuller album architecture.
Dreamy indie pop with bigger choruses, 80s and 90s color, deadpan vocals, girl-group sweetness, soft grunge undertones and lyrics about loneliness behind performance.
Recommended for: Princess Chelsea fans who want her most immediate pop-era album; Listeners drawn to I Love My Boyfriend and its ambiguous tone; Collectors of New Zealand indie pop from the late 2010s; Anyone who likes glossy melodies with awkward emotional shadows.
When was The Loneliest Girl released? The album was released in 2018 through the Princess Chelsea and Lil' Chief Records orbit. Which track is the main gateway? I Love My Boyfriend is the best-known entry point, but The Pretty Ones, I Miss My Man and the title track show the album's broader range. How does it fit in her catalogue? It sits between the earlier storybook-pop identity of Lil' Golden Book and the recovery-focused maturity of Everything Is Going To Be Alright.