NYC band Slow Fiction announce their debut album dollhouse, out 7 August via Tight Knit. Alongside the announcement, the band share new single ‘satellite’.
Composed of vocalist Julia Vassallo, guitarists Paul Knepple and Joseph Skimmons, bassist Ryan Duffin, and drummer Akiva Henig, Slow Fiction’s foundation is built on friendship and trust, a dynamic that has evolved into a family-like bond felt across each release.
On their latest single, ‘satellite’, the band explore themes of empathy and community, pairing shimmering guitars with expansive vocals.
“‘satellite’ is an allegory for collective atrophy in a country that’s poisoned with an Us vs. Them mentality. I was thinking of a person watching something uncomfortable on TV, and then being like ‘oh, that’s too much, I have to turn it off,’ because as a whole we’ve become selective with our empathy. I heard someone say recently that the price of community is occasional inconvenience; we’ve got to start considering community as more than just our own digital echo chambers.”
Julia Vassallo
The accompanying video, directed by Slow Fiction, features skate footage courtesy of Crossy, Daniel Snyder, Val Henderson, Adam Burns, Nick Demos, and Enchi Wang.
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