After the recent announcement of their new album Still Willing, available August 2nd via Bella Union, Dutch collective, Personal Trainer share the new single/video, “Cyan.” The track Follows singles “Intangible” remixed by White Denim, and “Round”. Frontman and bandleader Willem Smit describes “Cyan” as “a weird, happy pop track,” propelled by contributor Nick Bolland’s sax and leavened by vocal contributions from Dutch alt-pop singer Lena Hessels.

Willem comments, “I had been working on “Cyan” for a while and when I needed words, this song automatically turned into a love song. I was unsure about just openly declaring my love with this song, knowing it was going to end up on a record. It’s hard for me to put into words, which I guess is why I wrote a song and not an essay, but the conflict of me really caring about making music and feeling like I shouldn’t sing certain things is something I find interesting. I decided to write a song about this weird friction. With most of it, I was trying to make myself laugh or at least smile, and then I started to really like it. Somewhere along the process I found something like honesty or something beautiful in it. Lena intuitively changed the rhythm of the chorus ever so slightly which made it bounce a bit more. I took away a lot of my own vocals and replaced them with hers.”

The video for “Cyan” was directed by Louis Cooper and features portraits by Gracie Richmond. “I couldn’t think of anything better than unusual figures dancing, done in crude and awkward animation,” Cooper reflects. “Influenced by the works of Jim Blashfield and Michel Gondry, it was an attempt to make less of a visual collage and more of something that vaguely resembles the vintage charm of Captain Pugwash and Mr. Ben.”

Personal Trainer 2024 Tour Dates

Thu. Jul. 25 – Tunbridge-Wells, UK @ Unstead Festival
Sat. Jul. 27 – Thirsk, UK @ Deer Shed Festival
Sun. Jul. 28 – Oxfordshire, UK @ Truck Festival
Thu. Aug. 1 – London, UK @ The Shacklewell Arms
Fri. Aug. 2 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East (In-Store)
Sat. Aug. 3 – Portsmouth, UK @ Pie & Vinyl (In-Store)
Sat. Aug. 3 – Brighton, UK @ Resident (In-Store)
Sun. Aug. 4 – Totnes, UK @ Drift (In-Store)
Mon. Aug. 5 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade (In-Store)
Tue. Aug. 6 – Liverpool, UK @ Rough Trade (In-Store)
Wed. Aug. 7 – Leeds, UK @ Jumbo (In-Store)
Wed. Aug 7 – Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade Nottingham (In-Store)
Thu. Aug. 8 – London, UK @ Banquet (In-Store)
Sat. Aug. 10 – Lierop, NL @ Nirwana Tuinfeesten
Fri. Aug. 16 – Crickhowell, UK Green Man Festival
Sat. Aug 17 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands
Sun. Aug. 25 – Portsmouth, UK @ Victorious Festival
Sat. Sept. 14 – Bergen Op Zoom, NL @ Popmonument
Sat. Sept. 28 – Antwerp, BE @ Thorn in my side
Sat. Oct. 5 – Eindhoven, NL @ Come as you are
Tue. Oct. 29 – Zurich, CH @ Dynamo Werk21
Thu. Oct. 31 – Milan, IT @ Arci Bellezza
Fri. Nov. 1 – Bologna, IT @ Covo
Mon. Nov. 4 – Anger, FR @ Jokers Pub
Tue. Nov. 5 – Laval, FR @ La Fosse
Wed. Nov. 6 – Paris, FR @ Point Éphémère
Fri. Nov. 11 – Reykjavik, IS @ Iceland Airwaves
Tue. Nov. 12 – Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur
Thu. Nov. 14 – Vienna, AT @ Chelsea
Fri. Nov. 15 – Warsaw, PL @ Bardzo Bardzo
Fri. Nov. 16 – Berlin, DE @ Shokoladen
Tue. Nov. 19 – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen
Wed. Nov. 20 – Hamburg, DE @ Aalhus
Fri. Nov. 22 – Groningen, NL @ VERA
Thu. Nov. 28 – Zwolle, NL @ Hedon
Sat. Nov. 30 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Grote Zaal
Sun. Dec. 1 – Rotterdam, NL @ Maasilo
Thu. Dec. 5 – Tilburg, NL @ 013 NEXT
Wed. Jan. 29, 2025 – Madrid, ES @ Siroco
Fri. Jan. 31, 2025 – Barcelona, ES @ Razzamatazz 3
Thu. Feb. 6, 2025 – Ghent, BE @ Wintercircus
Fri. Feb. 14, 2025 – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
Sat. Feb. 15, 2025 – Newcastle, UK @ The Grove
Sun. Feb. 16, 2025 – Edinburgh, UK @ Mash House
Tue. Feb. 18, 2025 – Glasgow, UK @ Room 2
Wed. Feb. 19, 2025 – Belfast, UK @ Ulster Sports Club
Sat. Feb. 22, 2025 – Liverpool, UK @ District
Sun. Feb. 23, 2025 – Birmingham, UK @ Castle & Falcon
Mon. Feb. 24, 2025 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla
Wed. Feb. 26, 2025 – London, UK @ EartH
Thu. Feb. 27, 2025 – Portsmouth, UK @ Wedgewood Rooms
Fri. Feb. 28, 2025 – Oxford, UK @ Academy 2
Sat. Mar. 1, 2025 – Brighton, UK @ Chalk
Wed. May 7, 2025 – Opwijk, BE @ Nijdrop

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