German/American band SMILE just dropped a lush trip-hop-nostalgic track called ‘Hot Friend’, out today on Vienna indie label Siluh Records.
This instant earworm closed the show yesterday on the LOUD WOMEN radio show on Resonance FM.
“Hot Friend hails from the long nights on tour, where the hours between gigs blurred into a haze of restless energy. Feeling our live set lacked something to channel both its rage and sensuality, the idea for this track was born. Last summer, it took shape as a messy undertow driven by caustic, percussive guitars and a hypnotic groove. The lyrics sprung from poems passed back and forth between Rubee and dear friend and brilliant writer, Olivia Martinez. Engrossed in delirious, hot, dripping days in the desert, poems emerged of past heartbreak and the potential of new lust discharged from the pressure of performance and passivity. In November, we recorded it with Jan Philipp Janzen and Julian Stetter at the ONE artist studio in the Eifel, capturing that late-night tension in a single weekend.”