London bedroom pop/electronic duo Real Lies have revealed their new single "Dream On" and its accompanying music video.
The song is taken from their long-awaited sophomore album 'Lad Ash', set to be released on April 22 through their own UNREAL imprint. Pre-order your copy here.
Frontman Kevin Lee Kharas explains: “The song is also a love song, a song about sadness being brought out into the light. I don’t tend to write happy songs. But when you fall in love at first sight surrounded by all your best friends in a basement club on a humid Thursday night in July, it’s hard to remain neutral. Especially when you factor in the 2-for-1 deal on bottles of Canei.”
London bedroom pop/electronic duo Real Lies have announced the release of their long-awaited sophomore album 'Lad Ash'.
The follow up to 2015's debut Real Life, will be out on April 22 through their own UNREAL imprint. Pre-order your copy here.
On Lad Ash lyricist Kevin Lee Kharas romanticises ecstasy-fuelled teenage joyrides that set the coordinates for two decades of thrill-seeking hedonism. A wild period that resulted in both the group’s euphoric 2015 debut and the prolonged six-year wait for its follow up.
In places, that euphoria remains – they’ve never sounded higher than on ‘Dream On’ – but generally the mood here is darker, more late-night, club-ready and ruminative. There are songs about losing childhood friends in mysterious circumstances (‘Dolphin Junction’), bandmates (‘Boss Trick’ is a wake for former member Tom Watson), childhood innocence (‘An Oral History Of My First Kiss’) and huge swathes of memory (‘The Carousel’). As the title implies, Lad Ash is a coming-of-age album that draws out the beauty and longing of the young British male experience by reframing it through an elegiac, at times almost gothic, lens.
In a press release, speaking about he new single/video Kharas said: “Oral History” is a song about girls with Saturday jobs and boys with nothing to do finding magic in each other, in boring places with boring people who have cruel and stupid ideas about anything or anyone who’s different. The video is meant to reflect that sense of being young and stuck somewhere, waiting for something to happen."
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "An Oral History Of My First Kiss", below.
London bedroom pop/electronic duo Real Lies have shared the video for their new single "Your Guiding Hand".
The song is taken from their long-awaited sophomore album 'Lad Ash'. Get it here.
From the duo: "We have a new song out today. It’s called Your Guiding Hand and it’s a song about life and death in the English rain. Sometimes friends go missing along the way. But in moments like those you shared with them - parties, funfairs, night drives - sometimes the memory of them swims around you so vividly it’s like they’ve come back. It’s meant as a song and a seance for all your fallen rave soldiers. And a promise on my behalf to live life guided by their questing spirit and memory."
