Agender – Dizzyland
“The future is here and we’d like our money back,” says Romy Hoffman of Agender, the Los Angeles-based post punk band announcing their upcoming album, Dizzyland.
The group’s fourth studio record is fast, fun, frantic, and a little bit fatalistic, entirely self-produced and channeling the chaos of tech, doom, and sex in a driving, buzzy punk rhythm. Agender also share their lead single “Breathless” alongside a John Luc-Godard-inspired music video.
Agender unlock their inner New Romantic on their new single, “Breathless”. Named after the New Wave classic film by Jean-Luc Godard, the track feels all the wonder and danger of a romance about to crash down on your head — “That split second when Cupid takes aim and you can’t fuck with fate,” says Hoffman. She adds:
“It’s about the thrilling, intoxicating and slightly sinister side of falling in love. After all, love is dangerous. As the chorus warns, ‘You take my breath away and leave me breathless / Breathlessness sounds so nice, but really means death.’ Romance is a beautiful thing, but it might destroy you. Love takes your breath away. Literally.”
The “Breathless” music video was directed by Agender members Hoffman and Sara Rivas. “The song is about a French girl I fell in love with,” explains the front woman. “The title is a nod to Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic Breathless, so naturally, we had to make our own homo homage to the film. Godard, but make it gay, s’il vous plait.”
Now comes album number four, Dizzyland. Entirely engineered and produced by the band themselves at their rehearsal studio, it’s a woozy dispatch from a wobbly world. AI doom, techno overlords, climate catastrophes, collective malaise — ‘WTF is going on? Is the world spinning faster? And while the future looks increasingly unhinged, love still leaves me punch-drunk and seeing stars. The machines might take over, the planet might combust, but it’s good old-fashioned sex that’ll be the death of me’ explains Hoffman.
Agender make music for a world gone mad — frantic, funny, ferocious and defiantly unhinged. Punk rock for dancing with the void while the whole damn thing goes up in flames.
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