The enigmatic Agora Sci-Fi return with their fresh new hit, “sloppy” . Serving as the second single from the forthcoming EP Finding It Hard to Explain Something So Obvious, the new track is now available on all streaming platforms.
"Keep your job, but lose your mind", Agora Sci-Fi hums with sheer bliss on the new lo-fi pop tune. It’s one of the first lyrics we hear throughout “sloppy”, and although they may appeal bleak to some, they are far too relatable to those feeling stuck in a rut.
Crafted for a bright, dreamy day, "sloppy" offers a relatable narrative to those feeling tangled in the death grips of capitalism. Untangling the desire to escape from the social, economic, and psychological restraints of contemporary life, "sloppy" flirts with dynamics by gradually getting louder towards the end of the track, as Agora Sci-Fi highlights the injustice of the metaphorical shackles we are chained to.
Speaking in further detail about “sloppy” is Nathania Rubin herself: “Weaving in the fictional narrative in “sloppy” allowed me to really ramp up the stakes of the song. I was picturing a singular sane person, in a world with completely maddening and inhumane mandates. I imagined it as two separate songs in one, two personalities of the same person too, that kind of smash into each other at the end. Like many songs on the EP, it speaks to a desire to escape social confines, and the fracturing of self that happens when playing different roles in various areas of your life. The person who doesn’t conform, gets gaslit from inside and out, and labeled something like sloppy.” ============================================================================
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Nouvelle Vague - Sorry (ft. Hannah Hu).
Marc Collin has been following Terry Hall since The Specials. "Sorry" was originally a B side of Hall's project The Colourfield, released in 1984. Collin immediately fell in love with this song, revealing the beauty of Terry Hall's vocal and songwriting. When Terry passed away, he asked Hannah Hue, who had worked with Terry and whose voice he liked, if she wanted to do a cover of "Sorry" for the Nouvelle Vague album. She came to Paris to record probably the only cover existing of this beautiful song.
Hannah Hu is a singer-songwriter based in London, UK. In recent years, Hannah has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including names such as Terry Hall, The Specials, I Monster, The Moonlandingz and Primal Scream. Hannah has been described as a chanteuse of torch songs. Her voice channels the spirit of pop noir and sixties girl groups. It is a whirlwind of romance, violence and vulnerability, wrapped up in a candy shell.
Speaking about the track, Collin said: "I’ve followed Terry Hall since The Specials, and I had the chance to work with him on the cover Nouvelle Vague has done of "Our Lips Are Sealed" in 2009. “Sorry” was released in 1984. I remember I’ve bought this maxi single at Champs Disques in the 'export' row. I immediately fell in love with this song, revealing the beauty of his vocal and his songwriting.
"When Terry passed away, I saw a message of Hannah Hue that was working with him, I liked her voice and asked her if she wanted to do a cover of Sorry for the Nouvelle Vague album. She said yes and came to Paris to record it. I think that’s the only cover existing of this beautiful song."
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OK Go returns with And the Adjacent Possible, the band’s ambitious fifth studio album and first full-length release since 2014’s Hungry Ghosts. Even for a band known for pushing boundaries, the album is wildly eclectic—postmodern and genre-dissolving, with nods to Phil Spector, Toni Visconti, and Nile Rodgers sandwiched between the fuzzy, psychedelic opener, “Impulse Purchase,” and the meditative, Zen-like closer, “Don’t Give Up Now.” Glued together by the distinctive mixing of the band’s longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Tame Impala, MGMT), the twelve tracks collectively paint a portrait of a band comfortable in its own chameleon skin.
The band will deliver an extra special performance of “Love,” its new single, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, April 15. Like the album’s first track, “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill,” “Love” is written from a father’s perspective, but the weighty concerns of the first song give way to wonder and joy on this soaring new anthem.
Damian Kulash says, “You know that dream where you’re somewhere familiar, maybe your childhood home, but there’s a door, one that was never there before, leading to some impossible magical place? Having children did that to my understanding of love. Suddenly, a huge new ballroom opened up off of the little apartment I’ve inhabited so long: a whole new wing of love, grand and soaring and utterly overwhelming. It is endlessly amazing that we exist — little, conscious clusters of stardust occurring, apparently by chance, in the vast emptiness of the universe. And we get to experience love. It is unbelievable.”
And since this is OK Go, of course there is a mind-melting music video. It always seems like the band can’t possibly top themselves, but with the release of the video for “Love," they’ve done it again. The single-take video features complex choreography between the band, 29 robots, and upwards of 60 mirrors to create a dazzling — and this time deeply moving — spectacle of infinite reflections and human-scale kaleidoscopes. Shot in the faded glory of a Budapest train station, the clip was concepted in partnership with creative agency SpecialGuest, co-directed by Damian Kulash, Aaron Duffy, and Miguel Espada, and produced by 1stAveMachine, with technology integration by SpecialGuestX.
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