Confidence Man have returned with a new visualizer for “I Can’t Lose You.” The track is off the Australian artist’s album 3AM (LA LA LA), due for release on October 18 via CHAOS/Polydor/I OH YOU. “It’s a fucked up sort of world,” says Sugar Bones of the new Confidence Man universe they’ve created. But most importantly: “It’s 3am, it’s never not 3am, and we party all the time.”

3AM (LA LA LA) references what you might call the flow state Confidence Man found when writing and recording the album at Pony Studios in east London, with sessions that would go on all night. Vocals were improvised in the moment, and often captured in the first take. “We pretty much wrote every single song when we were wrecked,” says Planet. “We’d get blasted and stay up till 9am coming up with music, but we noticed that 3am was the hottest time for when we were on it and the best ideas were coming out.”

Album track “3am Eternal” is a nod to their heroes, the British acid house group The KLF (the very same KLF who once pulled off one of the most talked-about stunts in UK music history: burning a million quid). That admiration works both ways: The KLF’s elusive Jimmy Cauty has become a Confidence Man fan and has worked on a remix of the album’s closing title track. “I don’t think he’d been to a gig in 25 years and he came to see us at the Roundhouse in London,” says Planet. “He’s been mentoring us a bit ever since.”

It makes sense that Confidence Man drew on the likes of Groove Armada, Prodigy, Leftfield and Underworld, says Bones, because “all those classic UK rave acts have always been popular in Australia. Prodigy were my fave band growing up when I was in my early teens.” And yet their take on it all is, in typical Confidence Man style, filtered through their own warped lens. “We didn’t know any of the rules,” says Bones. “These sounds make their way into your scene but then everyone repurposes them because no one understands the context,” continues Planet. “No one had ever been to a warehouse rave where we’re from.”

Confidence Man will be at Glastonbury this summer testing a new live show they’re putting the finishing touches to, stepping up to the Other Stage as well as hosting their club night.

Confidence Man
3AM (LA LA LA)
Tracklist

1.⁠ ⁠WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU’LL FIND?
2.⁠ ⁠I CAN’T LOSE YOU
3.⁠ ⁠CONTROL
4.⁠ ⁠SO WHAT
5.⁠ ⁠BREAKBEAT
6.⁠ ⁠SICKO
7.⁠ ⁠REAL MOVE TOUCH (FEAT SWEETIE IRIE)
8.⁠ ⁠FAR OUT ⁠
9.⁠ ⁠JANE
10.⁠ ⁠⁠SO TRU
11.⁠ ⁠WRONG IDEA
12.⁠ ⁠3AM (LA LA LA)

Pre-order 3AM (LA LA LA) HERE