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Last year, Farveblind shared the first previews of their upcoming album with singles "Salary Man" and "Bottle Lady-Like". On their latest track, "Natural Behaviour", they invite London-based singer Emmeline, showcasing one of many collaborations on the record.
Speaking on the track, Emmeline says: "When the boys sent me the rough draft of this instrumental it was already so driving and epic. I wanted to write something equally dark but with a momentum and force to it that would move the song into something broadly philosophical and/or existential. The phrase ‘Natural Behaviour’ came to the fore pretty quickly, and I started to think about what that actually means. How much are we a product of the music around us? Of the people? Of the availability of light? Then I started thinking about someone waiting for someone’s natural behaviour to shift — and how that can be a pretty futile task. Maybe the song exists in a club at the ends of the earth, where we’re all questioning why the grass grows upwards, why the bassline hits harder when the beat drops, why we punish the earth for what it gives us — and how some patterns are hard to break.”
Discussing the origins of the song and their collaboration with Emmeline, Faverblind add: “’Natural Behaviour’ is one of those tracks that almost pulled itself into existence. We wanted to explore instinct vs environment - what we learn, what we inherit, and what we keep doing even when we know it hurts. Emmeline understood that immediately and took it somewhere haunting and strange. It’s one of our favourite moments on Micro Pleasures.”
In addition to Emmeline, Micro Pleasures features contributors Django Django, k.flay, Elliphant, USERS, Foreign Air, Sebastian Monti, Jesse Markin, and itcallsme i, with Gustav Brun (Yung Lean, Viagra Boys) behind production and mixing. Following early EP and single releases, the record arrives as a culmination of the relationships that Farveblind have built throughout that time.
Speaking on the album, they explain: "Micro Pleasures is an ode to the small glimpses of happiness you find in the otherwise oppressive mundanity of modern life. It explores how fleeting everyday joys can act as both coping mechanisms and subtle forms of resistance. The album is a collage of work with a lot of very exciting people. It allowed us to tap into genres and energies that wouldn't have been otherwise unavailable to us."
Ahead of the release, Farveblind will join ROMES for a string of European tour dates in February, with stops across Denmark and Poland.
Micro Pleasures tracklist
"Knocking Down Your Door (feat. itcallsme i)"
"Salary Man (feat. USERS)"
"Things (feat. k.flay)"
"These Days"
"Do You (feat. Elliphant)"
"Battle Lady-Like (feat. Foreign Air)"
"Micro Pleasures (feat. Sebastian Monti)"
"Parapraxis (feat. Jesse Markin)"
"Heartbreak Beats"
"Natural Behaviour (feat. Emmeline)"
"All of the Atoms (feat. Django Django)"
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