07 October 2022 - 0 Comments

New Zealand-born indie-pop artist Murmur Tooth teams up with British-German DJ and producer Lars Moston, to conjure this oxytocin-inducing dance track that despite being written in the middle of a Berlin winter, has a deep sense of late-summer romance, with its aching vocals, warm and soul-flecked drums, and chords fuelled by nostalgia.

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Beginning her musical journey with classical piano and oboe in the school orchestra, when Leah heard grunge for the first time she was inspired and nothing was ever the same; she taught herself guitar, formed an avant-metal band El Schlong, and shredded her way around the world, later with quirk-rock band Kobosh. She settled in Berlin, built a studio, and started her solo “doom-pop” project Murmur Tooth, single-handedly writing, recording and mixing two EPs and a full-length album.

Lars Moston is from a completely different musical discipline entirely, touring the world as a DJ, moving dancefloors from Fusion Festival to Tomorrowland. His own music is the result of an unpredictable range of influences and has been released on influential House Music labels such as Berlin’s Katermukke, Spanish giants Suara, and Nervous Records from New York City. He has remixed top artists like Purple Disco Machine and his music regularly pops up in the Beatport Top100 and in tastemaker playlists.

Leah and Lars met during the pandemic and started exploring how their polar opposite musical backgrounds could clash and combine. 2022 saw their first releases together, starting with the instrumental You, Me, Us, Spines on German label Heideton, and an official remix of Claptone’s latest single, Beautiful on Different Recordings.

Antidote, the first single from their upcoming album No Time To Explain, has already passed the DJ test with flying colours in Pacha in Ibiza, Printworks in London and Sisyphus in Berlin. With feel-good summer vibes and an anthemic vocal hook, it has people singing along by the second chorus and jumping along by the third.

"Antidote is about finding home and finding the things that make you happy to be alive. It's hopeful and optimistic. We actually wrote the song in the middle of winter during the first Berlin lockdown, but we were having a great time just hunkering down making music, and this joy really comes through in the song - it sounds like summer!" - Murmur Tooth

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