Husband-and-wife duo Jean-Philip Grobler and Patti Beranek are exiting 2025 the same way they entered the year: through releasing vibrant indie-pop music via their St. Lucia project. Following this past March’s Fata Morgana: Dawn, this Friday will see the release of its companion piece, Fata Morgana: Dusk, and today we’re getting one final preview of the LP via the disco-infused recollection of warmer days “Summer Nights.” Built upon a funky bass line and strings generally confined to the discothèque, Grobler and Beranek fondly look back on a bygone era of music as much as they do a more habitable season.
If the video for the track looks familiar, that’s because the duo filmed it the same evening as their visual for “Lights Off,” which dropped a few months back. “It was an idea that we came up with with our friend Xander Ferreira (who creative-directed and directed our visuals) of me and Patti dancing in a forest in the light of a car’s headlights,” shares Grobler of the clip, which was filmed in a forest in Zürich, Switzerland. “We performed the song a few times right at the end of daylight, and you can see the light fading throughout the various takes. It was truly just Patti and me having a bit of fun and perhaps being a little cringe with a little bit of choreography mostly just in the moment.”
St. Lucia has also announced a set of spring US dates in support of the new record, which you can check out here. Watch the video below, and pre-order Fata Morgana: Dusk before it arrives tomorrow via Nettwerk here.
