Phoenix, indie rock / alt band The Technicolors have released their new single “Posh Spice” and its accompanying music video.
The song, produced by GRAMMY-nominated Robert Adam Stevenson (Queens of the Stone Age, The Kills) is out now and marks the band’s first new music since 2021. Fuzzed out and heavily muddied, it features BRONCHO’s Nathan Price on drums. Buy it here.
Speaking about it, frontman Brennan Smiley says:
“‘Posh Spice’ started as a guitar riff Sean had been toying around with in the studio and we just kept chipping away and building around it between takes until it turned into a full song. Lyrics almost always come last for us, and from the beginning we loved the working title ‘Posh Spice’ because it set us down a path reaching for some kind of fun juxtaposition between themes of grit and toughness against the greasy sound of the band trudging through the mud the whole time.”
In the Jarod Evans-directed video, Smiley portrays a snake oil salesman ready to recruit everyday people looking for a little zest in their lives. With clues about the larger project hidden throughout, all you have to do is dial 555-ZEST to spice up your life.
Watch / listen below.
Following their last album Cinema Sublimina, The Technicolors needed a moment to take a breath. Spending over a decade out on the road and constantly trying to put out enough music to keep other people happy, the band decided to slow down in order to not cut important corners. During this period of “dormancy” the band’s catalog shot to new heights, priming them for their biggest chapter yet. After putting their heads down in a time where bedroom pop was being favored, the band got to work and now reemerges in a space where being a rock band feels viable again.
Writing their upcoming album over the last two years, The Technicolors wanted to physically be in the room with the creatives they were working with. Newly inking a deal with TikTok’s SoundOn, their fourth studio album will be out this August.
Photo by Lupe Bustos
