Over the long weekend,
Boycrush revealed
a new track off
Desperate
Late Night Energy, his forthcoming album due out June 15.
While writing and producing
the album material on
DLNE,
Alistair referenced a number of dance-related terms to use as placeholder names
for the tracks. 'Demi
pointes' refers to the type of shoe ballet dancers wear in
order to transition gradually to a pointe shoe before learning to dance ‘en
pointe’ and conjures metaphors of a liminal state of change.
Voiced by Jessie
Cassin and featuring Boycrush’s cathartic beatwork, the dreamy
future-pop track was written about ideas of unwanted attention and loneliness.
The vocals were pitched up from their original key in order to give them the
slightly disembodied feeling, reminiscent of producer Sophie's 'Bipp'.
Listen to Demi-pointes:
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Today
Alistair shares visuals for
Demi pointes; the first in a video trilogy
featuring three dancers from the New
Zealand Dance Company - Chrissy
Kokiri, Carl
Tolentino and Xin
Ji.
Directed
by Rowan Pierce,
the video aesthetic nods at New Zealand photographer Yvonne Todd in
a dance choreographed by Malia
Johnston, see
Holy Water (feat. Chelsea Jade)which recently hit #1 on
the NZ Alternative Airplay chart.
Boycrush
is the creative project of producer, drummer and songwriter, Alistair
Deverick. He is accompanied live by 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,
Carnivorous Plant Society and
The Ruby Suns.
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