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Superorganism share new song “On & On”
- As the release of Superorganism’s second album World Wide Pop moves closer (due July 15th), the quintet are pleased to reveal a fourth song from the record. Entitled “On & On”, it is the most upfront pop moment of World Wide Pop and cloaks the existential lyrics with the band’s idiosyncratic production. The track delves into the relentless and repetitive treadmill of life as Orono sings: “Am I insane or is it now the normal way? / Reason’s out, just hope and pray / And switch off till it goes away”
- Harry adds: “It is a bit of an analogy between the ground-hog day effect touring can have, and the cyclical nature of growing as a person and repeating the same mistakes along the way.”
- The video for “On & On” is directed and animated by AEVA based on a concept by the band themselves with character animation by Diana Gradinaru. Their most fully realised video, the band wanted to convey a sense of looking back on our current era from a future time period with misty-eyed nostalgia. They explain: “Think of how today we look back on previous eras with fascination and an often rose-tinted vision, like the swinging 60s, but there was strife and anxieties in any era that isn't necessarily captured by that nostalgia. We want to give a sense that there is no such thing as a "good old days", by showing someone in the future looking back at our current day thinking that the 2020s appear like the "good old days".
- Watch the previously released videos for “Teenager”, “It’s Raining” and “crushed.zip”.
- Superorganism have mutated and are now based around the core of Orono, Harry, Tucan, B and Soul but World Wide Pop also brings in an international set of collaborators including Stephen Malkmus, CHAI, Pi Ja Ma, Dylan Cartlidge as well as legendary musician and actor Gen Hoshino.
- World Wide Pop blasts back with thirteen tracks that strike a balance between artifice and easterness 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
- 15th July – Rough Trade East, London - instore
- 16th July – Resident instore, Brighton - instore
- 17th July (afternoon) - Pie & Vinyl instore, Portsmouth - instore
- 17th July (evening) - Rough Trade instore, Bristol - instore
- 18th July – Rough Trade, Nottingham - instore
- 19th July – Jumbo, Leeds - instore
- 20th July – Pryzm, Kingston - instore
- 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 Digital
