Sydney bedroom-pop project Solo Career (Body Type’s Annabel Blackman) has dropped her new single “Venus On Speed Dial“, alongside a music video.
The synth-driven road song marks Blackman’s first release in four years under her beguiling bedroom-pop guise and comes with news of her debut album, Interior Delirium, due to be released on July 11 via Dinosaur City Records. Pre-order it here.
According to the press release, Interior Delirium, is a glorious and sly synth pop record about the absurdity of identity – how we perform for others and ourselves, the puppetry that plays out across culture, and the freak impulses that startle our sense of self. “The album revolves around awkwardness, earnestness, gripe-picking, lustful stewing, play and self-deprecation” says Blackman.
‘Venus on speed dial’ is about the discombobulations of desire, and how wanting someone can so often come at the expense of your own personhood: “This one is dedicated to being messed around by someone and going a bit loopy, and the experience of morphing yourself into whatever you think someone might like you to be,” says Blackman. The song revels in this claustrophobia with distorted synths, fuzzy guitars and Blackman’s disaffected drawl (“What’s your idea? / What’s the appeal?”), which swaddles the song in both humour and tenderness.
For the video, Solo Career collaborates with director, Gus Macleod, which is a lighthearted extension of the Blackman-designed Interior Delirium album art. Shot entirely in Blackman’s garage – with her father’s help in creating additional backdrops and furniture – the clip repurposes a homemade window backdrop Blackman, too, created, embracing the intimate and slightly surreal nature of the song.
Watch / listen below.
Interior Delirium Tracklist:
- Beta
- Venus on speed dial
- Spring Drills
- Neo Soul Jazz Afternoon
- GWD
- Splenda
- Is That U?
- Avatar (featuring Boba Lego)
- Bed Knot
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Photo credit: Anthea Christie
