“Easter Island” by No Windows

No Windows, recently dropped new single “Easter Island”. The track follows the recent announcement of their EP The Great Traitor. The new release follows their 2024 EP Point Nemo, a run of EU / UK tour dates – including being part of The Great Escape’s ‘First Fifty’ and supporting full Slow Pulp tour. Alongside the new single, the band have also shared details of a new run of live dates for 2025.

The Great Traitor EP expands the duo’s sonic territory even further, leaving the more familiar indie traits behind in favour of lush, psychedelic arrangements that take their cues from 70s chamber pop (George Harrison, Leonard Cohen) and film score composer Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Produced with Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Sorry, Yard Act), the recording process took them out of Morgan’s DIY bedroom set-up and into a studio, where they had access to a breadth of instruments that allowed for more exploration across the EPs six tracks.

The new single “Easter Island” marks the first track the band have written to be sung as a duet from start to finish, and is emblematic of how much Morgan and Verity’s creative relationship has grown over the past years. The emotive and intricate acoustic EP closer sees mellifluous fingerpicking weave around the duos simultaneous vocal lines, with subtle piano, Vibraphone, and tape loop ambience floating in and out of the track.

Speaking on the track, Morgan says, “Easter Island may be the most collaborative song we’ve written, there was almost no separation between both of our roles in that moment. Usually, our instinct after finishing on a song’s spine is to think about arrangement, instrumentation, and production. The works. However, after finishing up Easter Island, we felt perfectly content with where it was. The song remains almost the same as when we played it in my room for the first time.”

“It was written at the end of the relationship that inspired so much of this EP, I have written so many breakup songs and this one shows my maturity in being able to take a gentler and more nuanced approach on the situation,” Verity continues. “As Morgan said, I cannot separate our roles in this song, I felt very unrooted while writing it, and the collaborative element signifies to me the most constant thing in my life, music and me and Morgan’s relationship.”

No Windows 2025 tour Dates

9th May – Edinburgh – Assai (EP release day instore)
22nd May – London – Footsteps Festival – w/ The Vaselines
24th May – Bristol – Dot To Dot Festival
25th May – Nottingham – Dot To Dot Festival
14th June – Edinburgh – Hidden Door Festival
21st June – London – Rough Trade East (headline)
26th September – Glasgow – The Rum Shack (headline)

Pre-order The Great Traitor by No Windows HERE

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