Today
New Zealand producer
Boycrush debuts
a mesmerizing new track; the first to come from his forthcoming album
Desperate Late Night Energy,
due for release on June
15.
Holy Water features
the self-assured presence of long-time collaborator,
Chelsea Jade, whose
airy voice serves as a foil for the weighty music bed. Recording sessions took
place between two cities - Los Angeles and Auckland - to bring together a
story inspired by a trip to Salvation Mountain near the Salton Sea in Southern
California.
Accompanying the track is an equally inspired new music video co-directed
with Rowan
Pierce in collaboration with The New Zealand Dance Company.
The video was choreographed by Malia
Johnston, with a nod to the iconic Limbs Dance Company,
and plays on the idea of being as juvenile as possible in a virtuosic way.
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Boycrush is the creative project of producer,
drummer and songwriter, Alistair
Deverick. He is accompanied live with vocalists, Carla Camilleri and Tom Young from
Auckland music collective,
Leisure.
The first Boycrush EP
Everybody
All The Time came
together during his stint in Madrid at the Red Bull Music Academy 2011, and
produced possibly one of the most iconic synth-pop tracks of the year (
Secrets with
Watercolours). A year later, Deverick followed up with his striking
second EP
Girls On
Top, which saw love from The Guardian and wide appreciation
from blogs around the world for it's leading track
Flirt (featuring
Yumi Zouma & Madeira).
Outside of his own work, Deverick performs with
Lawrence Arabia, Jonathan
Bree and
The
Ruby Suns.
Pre-order Desperate
Late Night Energy here
Modern dance iconography is at
the conceptual centre of Desperate
Late Night Energy. Placeholder DLNE track names came from a Wikipedia
glossary of dance terms which initially served as creative provocations but
some eventually stuck to the songs and remain on the final tracklist.
Recorded in the basement
underneath Auckland's Crystal Palace,
DLNE inhales
the euphoria of the early morning hours and puffs it onto a low-lit dance
floor. Like his previous EPs, it was mixed by Bevan Smith of Introverted Dancefloor,
and features 11 hypnotic tracks including features from
Yumi Zouma,
Chelsea Jade and
Benny’s Videos.
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