In between helping Vundabar celebrate 10 years of Gawk and opening for Swervedriver as they look back on Raise 35 years later, NYC’s Slow Fiction will finally be releasing an album of their own that’ll surely be worth revisiting on the road a decade or so down the line. Their debut record dollhouse is expected to arrive on August 7—just a few weeks before getting whisked across North America with the influential UK shoegaze group—and today we’re getting another taste of the record via its third single, “turning down flowers.” The album’s closer starts off softly yet slowly builds over the course of six minutes into a post-rock epic with the help of some heavy guitar sounds that surely helped the band secure their opening spot on the upcoming trek.
Regarding the new single, vocalist Julia Vassallo explains how it was approached from an angle that’s rarely explored in music and other art forms with regard to gender. “When I was younger, I used to love that the word ‘together’ split up was ‘to get her,’” Vassallo explains. “At this point, it’s unrealistic to expect every song a woman sings about womanhood or an exploration of existing in a certain body to be uplifting and overtly empowering—that’s not equality. We should be able to express being super existentially depressed about our place in a room, and act weird about it. I don’t think we’re typically allotted that space, especially in certain genres of music and art.”
Check out the music video for the new cut made up of tour footage shot by Samantha Caballero below, and pre-order dollhouse here.
