Superorganism share new single “It’s Raining” featuring Stephen Malkmus
Having announced their return earlier this month with news of their long awaited second album – World Wide Pop, due July 15th - Superorganism now deliver the second song from the upcoming record and another slice of irresistible pop.
Like the previously shared “Teenager”, “It’s Raining” also features collaborators joining the Superorganism colony; this time from Stephen Malkmus and UK rapper Dylan Cartlidge. Amidst the stomping beats, glitchy synth drips and their collage-like maximalism, another familiar voice can be heard courtesy of a Scott Walker sample.
The band say of the collaborations on “It’s Raining”: “We've been enormous fans of Stephen Malkmus forever, and we loved the idea of combining Malkmus and Scott Walker into a strange almost broken-sounding hip hop track. We'd done a remix for Dylan Cartlidge and absolutely loved his flow; we asked him if he'd like to try a verse and he fit so naturally. With Dylan being from the North of England and Stephen in Portland, the rain theme is all the more fitting for them too.”
Directed by AEVA, the video features illustrations from Risa Kazama, and takes us - as a smiling drop of rain - on a journey through a bullet train meeting each member of Superorganism as well as Malkmus and Cartlidge.
World Wide Pop blasts back with thirteen tracks that strike a balance between artifice and earnestness, between sci-fi silliness and existential intensity. A showcase for Superorganism’s newly deepened understanding of each other’s interests and impulses, the kind of creative convergence you’d expect when online friends start spending time together IRL (their debut was completed before the whole band had ever been in the same room at the same time).
Upcoming live dates
- 3rd September – Doornroosje, Nijmegen
- 4th September – Bitterzoet, Amsterdam
- 5th September – Nochtspeicher, Hamburg
- 6th September – Hole 44, Berlin
- 7th September – Praga Centrum, Warsaw
- 9th September – Lucerna Music Bar, Prague
- 10th September – DasWERK, Vienna
- 12th September – Club Volta, Cologne
- 13th September – Rotonde – Botanique, Brussels
- 14th September – La Trabendo, Paris
- 16th September – Chalk, Brighton
- 17th September – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds
- 18th September – SWG3 Warehouse, Glasgow
- 20th September – Gorilla, Manchester
- 21st September – Scala, London
- 27th September – Portland House of Music, Portland, ME
- 29th September – Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY
- 30th September – Space Ballroom, Hamden, CT
- 1st October – Paradise, Boston, MA
- 2nd October – L'Astral, Montreal, QC
- 3rd October – Axis, Toronto, ON
- 5th October – Skully's, Columbus, OH
- 7th October – Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL
- 8th October – Majestic, Madison, WI
- 9th October – Varsity Theater, Minneapolis, MN
- 11th October – Meow Wolf, Denver, CO
- 12th October – Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT
- 14th October – Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
- 15th October – Neumos, Seattle, WA
- 16th October – Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver, BC
- 19th October – The Ritz, San Jose, CA
- 20th October – August Hall, San Francisco, CA
- 21st October – The Regent, Los Angeles, CA
- 22nd October – The Music Box, San Diego, CA
- 24th October – Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ
- 25th October – Meow Wolf, Santa Fe, NM
- 27th October - Scoot Inn, Austin, TX
- 28th October - White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX
- 29th October - Club Dada, Dallas, TX
- 1st November – Terminal West, Atlanta, GA
- 2nd November – Basement East, Nashville, TN
- 3rd November – Motorco Music Hall, Durham, NC
- 4th November – 930 Club, Washington, DC
- 5th November - Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
World Wide Pop is available to pre-order on exclusive “Earth coloured” gatefold vinyl signed print, standard gatefold vinyl, CD, cassette and digitally. Pre-order: Dom Mart
