Sex Week, which includes actor/musician Pearl Amanda Dickson and songwriter/producer Richard Orofino, have announced their self-titled debut album Sex Week, will drop on August 30th via Grand Jury . Along with the news, the Brooklyn duo, shares an unhinged self-directed video for “Cockpit.” Last month Sex Week released “Angel Blessings.” Dickson & Orofino have directed videos for themselves and their Brooklyn friends in Babehoven, Bloomsday and Palehound.

Of the bewitching track the band says “Have you ever looked an apple in the eye? Have you heard the way it weeps before you devour it? Or have you ever noticed the peach before you squash it? Your place in the cockpit. You are the cockpit. You’re the pilot in the cockpit.”

Sex Week’s origin begins with a mixtape. A few years ago, Dickson made a playlist called Colorado 2 Omaha for a friend about to drive across the country to NYC. It stuck around after the journey and soundtracked countless nights in her friend’s apartment, so much so that her friend’s roommate, Orofino, would become obsessed with it. And with its creator. After a visit to New York, the pair immediately clicked and Sex Week was born. “Most of the artists on there – Liz Phair, Elusin, Walter Egan, Wolf Alice – we connected over,” says Dickson. “Then Richard returned the favor and showed me Judee Sill and Double Virgo.”

Soon after, the band released their debut single “Toad Mode,” a playful and entrancing song dotted with voice memos of their friend’s cat meowing. “With some of our songs, I want people to giggle and sing along, and with the others I want them to cry and scream,” says Dickson.

“I think we have very different approaches to writing which really works in our favor,” says Orofino. “I come from a more proper musical background so chords, production, and instrumentation come naturally to me while Pearl is a writer. Her lyrical concepts are so unique and I obsess over her melodies.”

Sex Week
Sex Week
Tracklisting
Grand Jury

01 Bluff
02 Shady Sadie
03 Angel Blessings
04 Cockpit
05 Kid Muscle
06 Naked
07 Toad Mode

Pre-order Sex Week HERE