Reba Meyers — Code Orange’s co-founding guitarist and a member of Marilyn Manson’s current live band — has struck out on her own with a debut solo single. To preview an upcoming album release, the musician has just revealed an alt-rock jam called “Certain Uncertainty.”
The single was delivered today (December 12th) along with a new nostalgia-steeped music video directed by Better Lovers frontman Greg Puciato, which finds Meyers belting out her song by the beachside and while strolling through city streets; it likewise features some footage of her as a little kid.
As for the song, it’s a melody-pressed, if distortion-flared, alt-rock anthem about the passage of time, how memory hits us in the feels, and how sometimes you just want to put the shine on the ones you care about (“Just wanted to make you bright”).
Sonically, Meyers’ debut single arguably mixes the vibe of more pop-leaning Code Orange songs like “Mirror,” off 2023’s The Above, and her emo-ish Adventures project. Meyers played most of the instruments on the new track, but Gil Sharone (Marilyn Manson) is on drums and Judy Meyers added violin. You can hear the results via the video player up above.
Details on the forthcoming album are lean, though it’s expected to arrive this spring. More broadly, the timing seems to be right for the prolific Pennsylvania musician to get started on her solo career.
“I’m finding that I have the space only now in my life to have a bird’s eye view on my adolescence, and that perspective, and current time of growth made it the perfect moment to begin to release solo material,” she said in a statement.
She added of billing the project under her own name: “I get to experience the rewarding and nerve-wracking process of allowing myself the platform to be a more vulnerable person, and to explore that natural foundation proudly outside of how I’ve maybe been portrayed.”
As previously reported, 2024 found Meyers joining Manson’s live band, which also includes Sharone, guitarist Tyler Bates and bassist Piggy D. Back in the summer, she noted that she was “proud to represent the growth, confidence, forgiveness, humanity, and change that comes with this, and to be up there with such talented motherfuckers.”