Clothing have released a new single/video “Paper Money (feat. Elliott Skinner).” The track is off the duo’s upcoming debut album, From Memory, available July 26th.The song follows lead single “Still Point (feat. L’Rain)” and the previously released “Kingdom (feat. Amber Coffman).” Clothing is the duo of Aakaash Israni (Dawn of Midi) and Ben Sterling (Cookies, Mobius Band).

The duo somehow produced over 200 versions of “Paper Money” — all for a song made mostly of just bass and vocals. They grew desperate, taking months off at a time in order to “listen fresh,” hoping to gain a fleeting perspective on the song. Ultimately, Clothing ended up returning to one of their earliest ideas, 190ish saves ago, an outcome “anyone besides us could’ve seen coming from a mile away,” says Israni.

On Skinner’s contribution, the band says “Elliott brought a ton of magic to the vocals. He sent endless stacks of incredible harmonies. We could barely fit half of them into the song, but what remains is glorious.”

The song’s animated video, directed by Shira Inbar, careens down the endless hallways and rooms of an ever-expanding house, trading the domestic for the surreal and back again.

Clothing is the result of the long-gestating friendship and musical collaboration between Israni and Sterling. Sterling is a born and bred New Yorker who came of age marinating in pop music, while Israni is an Indian-born, SoCal surfer who studied classical composition in France and free improvisation at CalArts. These different backgrounds and interests created a productive and surprising friction: when the two began sharing musical ideas, it turned out Israni didn’t know what a chorus was in popular music. “I had never even considered how a pop song was constructed,” says Israni. Sterling had much to learn from Israni, too—especially about the intricate Ghanaian music that inspired Dawn of Midi’s Dysnomia and that soon came to underpin the unexpected rhythms of From Memory.

Pre-order From Memory by Clothing HERE