Music News - Luke Buda shares new single 'Candy'
03 September 2021 - 0 Comments
Luke Buda (he/him) is a songwriter based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). Buda’s music finds influence in the warm strums that emanated from Laurel Canyon in the 1960's, the dreamy vocals of supreme 1970's soft rock and disco, and the digital delays and drum machines wafting out from the UK in the early 1980's. In this work, he locates the sweet spot between introspection and wry humour.
Today he shares Candy,
the second single from his upcoming album Buda (out October 15).
"Candy was a sincere attempt at making a generous and sweet sounding guitar-pop number" says Buda. "I tried to take my cynical cheese filter off and just allow myself to make something that felt nice and breezy. Once I had done that I ended up feeling like I had to subvert it at least a little bit, hence the dark robot voice."
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The track is a masterclass in songwriting, and one listen won't be enough satiate taste for sweet, sweet, candy. Upon hearing the tune for the first time, Jeremy Taylor (owner of Slowboat Records
& regular contributor to RNZ's Nine To Noon) described the tune as "a glassy, sleek, shimmering, shot of post-shoegaze pop."
There is a visual accompaniment for Candy, masterminded by visual effects
artist
Puck Murphy
. This isn't their first rodeo together, with Puck lending his talents to The Phoenix Foundation's iconic clip Bob Lennon John Dylan
.
In October Buda will release his third solo album (his first in twelve years), a collection of songs mostly recorded in his garage over the last three years. The lyrics are a mix of Buda's sincere but sardonic musings about feeling old and tired and anxious about everything, and words supplied by New Zealand novelist Damien Wilkins, all set to the kind of melodies that you could find while channel surfing through radio stations on a long midnight drive.
Buda has roped in a large range of collaborators for the album, including guests like Don McGlashan; Joe Lindsay and Toby Laing from Fat Freddy's Drop; Riki Gooch; Dayle Jellyman; Jacqui Nyman; and all the members of The Phoenix Foundation. Special mention needs to be made of Anita Clark's (Motte) contribution, as she sang on every single track.
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