After a successful 2019 saw them causing ripples in the Irish music scene, earning themselves a booking at SXSW 2020 and getting a coveted spot of soundtracking the woes of the uber-rich on Made In Chelsea, Autre Monde are back with an excellent new single “Brain Upon Your Pillow”.
“Brain Upon Your Pillow” is an expansive track full of left-turns but all tied together by a central driving groove. Subtle guitar solos, sleazy late-night synths and hushed vocals make up this nearly seven-minute track and it sounds little like anything else being released by their contemporaries right now. A final third of ambient feedback is majorly unexpected but feels like hints of a wider story yet to be told.
“I wrote ‘Brain Upon Your Pillow’ as a kind of Latin-y folk ballad, all finger-picked guitar. It was written in the midst of Autre Monde really finding its feet, understanding what we were as a band, and it was just natural that it would become this groove thing with a hint of desperation and drama. That Grace Jones Pull Up to the Bumper beat, we’d be happy to play it for hours, so the song stretches out on it a bit before taking its other turns.” says Autre Monde.
“It’s a paranoid song, it’s about not sleeping and the threats that torment the character at night. I always picture them as some kind of huckster made good for whom the con is over. It’s Uncut Gems!”
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Autre Monde’s debut album The Imaginary Museum is due for release on February 28 via Strange Brew.
