A month after releasing the single Goodbye, Casey Lipka now returns with Giving It Time, a new EP rooted in the same emotional honesty that has quietly defined her work for years. Released today, the five-track record moves through themes of vulnerability, friendship, and connection without forcing emotion or turning intimacy into spectacle.
Based in Los Angeles, Lipka has built a career that resists easy categorisation. The bassist, vocalist, and composer has toured internationally with CAKE, composed music for ballet and museum installations, fronted an eighteen-piece Motown orchestra, and developed community-focused creative initiatives centred on women and non-binary musicians. Still, despite the range of projects around her, there is something grounded about the way she approaches music.
Across The Long Road, Never Want To Say, Higher, Goodbye, and Tides, Lipka keeps the focus on emotional honesty rather than dramatic gestures. The EP moves gently between reflection and uncertainty, giving each song enough space to settle naturally instead of rushing towards easy resolutions. That perspective also appears in the way Lipka speaks about creativity beyond music alone. In recent reflections shared online, she described a childhood shaped by constant making: collage journals, improvised performances, and homemade videos filmed in garages with friends. The format changed over time, but the instinct remained the same, and creating became a way of connecting with people.
Speaking about the EP, Lipka explains: “Giving It Time shares themes of vulnerability, authenticity, deep connection, true friendship, collective care, community, joy, gratitude, and what it is like truly being in relationship with people. These types of connections, these types of friendships take time. They require being nurturing, forgiveness, truth-telling, speaking up when it is hard, staying through the ups and downs, all the while being authentic with yourself and those that you love.”