Gordi & SOAK – “Lunch At Dune”

Gordi, aka Australia’s Sophie Payten, and SOAK, aka Northern Ireland’s Bridie Monds-Watson, are teaming up. Next month the two indie singer-songwriters will release a collaborative EP called Lunch At Dune. The title track, out today, represents Gordi’s first release since departing her former record label Jagjaguwar. Though Jagjaguwar released Gordi music as recently as last year, this song’s genesis dates back to just before the pandemic, as Gordi explains in a press release:

I was sitting at the kitchen table of an Airbnb in East London in the last week of February in 2020. It was cold and dark outside, and the streets were unnervingly silent. Refreshing my Twitter feed every 2 minutes to see which country had closed its borders, I wondered if I’d be able to get home, as the panic around the pandemic was swirling. I sat in the crippling uncertainty for a minute, and began to write. The next day I finished what became “Lunch at Dune” in a small studio in Camden in the northern part of London.

She adds:

The song is about feeling like there is something insurmountable in front of you and the only way through is perspective. In “Lunch at Dune,” I’m trying to give that perspective to someone I love.

In the video, Gordi and SOAK get, uh, soaked. By which I mean they don suits and ties, enjoy a drink on the beach, and float around in the ocean fully clothed. Here’s SOAK’s take on the whole ordeal:

As a longtime fan of Gordi I was so hyped when she reached out to ask me to sing on this track. Something I’ve always found mesmerizing about her work is that each song feels like its own little universe. I think “Lunch at dune” is a great example of this, a world of its own. I was less hype when Sophie asked me to jump in the freezing Irish sea at the start of winter for the video but I obliged and have since returned to my normal skin tone.

Watch the video below.

Lunch At Dune is out 11/15.