
Baltimore-based alternative/new wave two-piece Ed Schrader’s Music Beat have unveiled their new single “IDKS” alongside a music video.
The track features on their forthcoming album ‘Orchestra Hits‘, due to be released on September 20th via Upset The Rhythm. Pre-order your copy here.
With percolating synthesizer arpeggios, and climbing bass grooves, “IDKS” is the album’s dance-floor slapper. Schrader said:
“’IDKS’ is a funny one. We already had a pretty satisfying suite of songs when Dylan was packing up to head back to New York, but he missed the train because of a freak snowstorm. Realizing he’d be stuck in town another day, he says to me, ‘Here’s this other weird thing I have.’ It was ‘IDKS.’ The hooks were so good I felt like Homer Simpson at a free donut convention. I just dove right in, and we cranked that baby out in like 20 minutes.”
Lyrically, “IDKS” is a letter from the true self to public-facing self. “It’s an angry song,” Schrader added. “Because the public-facing self is always looking for an easy escape, but it forces the true self into a cage. I honestly thought my lyrics were corny and was about to change them, but Dylan was digging it just the way it was. So that’s what you hear.”
Watch the Tristan Wheeler-directed video below.
Photo courtesy of Upset The Rhythm