Sex Week – Lone Wolf
Sex Week share “Lone Wolf,” the new single from the duo’s recently announced new EP, Upper Mezzanine, due August 1st on Grand Jury.
Of the atmospheric track, the band says “’Lone Wolf’ is about communication and testing the limits of a relationship.” The song arrives with a Lynchian video directed by the band’s Richard Orofino and Pearl Amanda Dickson.
“The approach for Upper Mezzanine felt more inquisitive,” says co-vocalist Pearl Amanda Dickson, a relative newcomer to the songwriting world. Sex Week started in 2022 when her now-partner Richard Orofino – a prolific musician & producer since he was in grade school – fell in love with her taste via a wildly eclectic playlist she made for his roommate. Orofino excelled at, as he put it, “honing structural strangeness into something more recognizable.” So Pearl’s precocious perspective and natural appetite for the stranger corners of music was a natural fit. That chemistry led to the whirlwind creation of their eponymous debut EP.
So where the music of their debut felt like momentarily glimpses of something scary and exciting – here things feel far more visceral, each track a focused punch delivered directly from the gut. “I still want people to be singing along and taking the melodies away with them, but the darkness of this EP is obviously there,” says Dickson. “The world is scary right now. I’m scared in lots of ways, and I think that omnipresent feeling definitely snuck into Upper Mezzanine.”
Part of the band’s charm on Sex Week was how they paired those rough edges with a surprising playfulness, finding a hopeful glow in the gloom and vice versa on nearly every song. “The balance is necessary” says Orofino, “which makes it both conscious and unconscious. We are aware of it as it’s happening but it happens every time.”
Tour Dates:
08/02 – Ridgewood, NY @ TV Eye (EP Release Show)
08/08 – London UK @ Shacklewell Arms
08/14-17 – Wales, UK @ Green Man Festival
08/22 – Liverpool, UK – Rough Trade Liverpool
08/23 – Nottingham, UK – Rough Trade Nottingham
08/24 – London, UK @ All Points East
08/30 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Psych Fest
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