Listen to Orlando Weeks’ simmering new single ‘Dig’ featuring Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale
nme.comOrlando Weeks has dropped his simmering new single ‘Dig’ featuring Wet Leg‘s Rhian Teasdale – watch the video below.The former Maccabees frontman has released his latest music in anticipation of his forthcoming album ‘Loja’, scheduled to drop on June 6 via Fiction Records – presave the album here.‘Dig’ is described by Weeks as an “under your breath half-argument, the kind that only ever happens in public,” featuring jabs such as “I’m so far from it on the other shore / I dig my heels into the hardwood floor”.
Weeks added: “‘Dig’ is a tit for tat exchange where long worn-out promises are remade and road weary offences retaken. The kind of disagreement that manages to be somewhere between outpouring of emotion and exposed internal monologue.”Watch the fantastical video for ‘Dig’ directed by Matt Harris-Freeth below:‘Loja’ was written as Weeks moved from London to Lisbon.
Its name (‘shop’ or ‘store’ in Portuguese) references a building the musician rented to make the art to accompany the album.
Weeks will be hosting an exhibition of this art and performing tracks off Loja from June 6-9 at London’s Copeland Gallery – get your tickets here.“The great change in our lives was that we left London and moved to Lisbon, and the record definitely has elements of being a love letter to the place that we now call home,” he said. “But I think the move provided a stirring of the waters.
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