Sex Week, includes actor and musician Pearl Amanda Dickson and songwriter and producer Richard Orofino. Today, the duo have shared new single “Kid Muscle,” off their self-titled EP, available August 30th via Grand Jury.

The duo’s origins can be traced back to when 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.”

But pressed to explain what they’re really chasing, ultimately Sex Week says it’s the intimacy invoked by the great duets & duos of the past: Stevie Nicks and Don Henley, Sonny and Cher, David Lynch and Laura Dern.

That last non-musical pair might feel like a curveball, if not for the cinematic quality of the project. The “Angel Blessings” video feels like a fever dream pulled straight from Inland Empire. Dickson & Orofino have directed videos for themselves and their Brooklyn friends in Babehoven, Bloomsday and Palehound.

2024 Tour Dates

7/29 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere Rooftop *
8/7 – Brooklyn, NY @ 148 Frost St ^
8/29 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool ~
9/16 – Ridgewood, NY – TV Eye +

* w/ Pile
^ You Missed It w/ Die Spitz & Birthday Girl
~ w/ Why Bonnie
+ w/ Closebye and Zero Point Energy

Pre-order Sex Week HERE