UK duo Blue Violet recently shared new single “Survival,” the track is off their forthcoming album Faux Animaux dropping on September 27th via Me & My Records via High Head Recordings. Says Blue Violet: “Sometimes we do not understand how those who are closest to us could hurt us the most; this is a song about how we come to terms with that feeling.”

They wrote ‘Boogie Shoes’ as a post-pandemic entreaty to get out and grab life again. “It felt like we were all going through a mass depression and needed to pull ourselves out of it, but that is sometimes easier said than done,” explains guitarist and co-singer Sam Gotley. Hence this vision of London’s night-crawlers comes with a seedy undercurrent reflecting “the temptation that goes with a night out in the belly of the beast, where even humanity’s best might fall from grace.”

Earlier this year, Blue Violet shared one off single “Human After All.” It is, says Sarah, “about individuals and the collective. Not thinking that you have a big impact as a small individual, but actually, if everybody has the same viewpoint then we can achieve big things.”

“Imagine me waiting in your dressing room” / “Only I know just how to get to you,” purrs Sarah McGrigor – crystalline singer of Scottish-French-Moroccan heritage. The song, the duo say, “is about the anticipation of a sexual encounter, the lust that goes with fantasising about it, and the subsequent disappointment of it ending too soon. We have leaned into electronic influences from the 80s on this one with the bass synth driving the track, and a The Smiths-esque guitar riff that drops in and out throughout.”

Recorded in Bristol’s J&J studios with Bat For Lashes and Hannah Peel producer TJ Allen. Blue Violet returned to the stage in March, when they were invited to play a song with The Gaslight Anthem during various shows at London’s Roundhouse.

Blue Violet
Faux Animaux
Tracklisting

Sweet Success
Imagine Me
Survival
Talking To You
The Librarian
Cold Hearts
Boogie Shoes
Fire
Teeth Out
Barefoot On The Seine
Faux Animaux

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