Dragonette, the electropop project of Canadian singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara, has returned with plans for a new album. Sorbara will deliver her first new record in six years, Twennies, on October 28 via BMG.
After dropping album cut "New Suit" over the summer, the artist now shares the record's title track alongside a lyric video, which you can watch below.
Sorbara said of the song in a statement:
This song is about the push and pull of progress versus nostalgia, which is present in the instrumentation as well: a house track with an acoustic drum solo! Everyone has a point that they let go of the new world, hold on to what is familiar and let progress carry on without them. I think about that a lot. I have a lot of nostalgia for earlier times, life without the crazy frantic energy of what the digital/social media age has wrought. But I also have a genuine excitement about current and future knowledge/progress/technical and scientific discoveries. "Twennies" is the internal collision of those two polarities.
Sorbara wrote the album in Toronto with Los Angeles-based producer Dan Farber over the course of several weeks. The artist describes the record as a "true hybrid of my original influences as a child and what I've learned along the way," adding that it feels "representative of my musical journey."
Listen to "Twennies" below, where you can also find the album's tracklisting.
Twennies:
1. Seasick
2. Hysteria
3. New Suit
4. Twennies
5. T-Shirt
6. Winning
7. Stormy
8. This Is All You Get
9. Good Intentions
10. Outie
After dropping album cut "New Suit" over the summer, the artist now shares the record's title track alongside a lyric video, which you can watch below.
Sorbara said of the song in a statement:
This song is about the push and pull of progress versus nostalgia, which is present in the instrumentation as well: a house track with an acoustic drum solo! Everyone has a point that they let go of the new world, hold on to what is familiar and let progress carry on without them. I think about that a lot. I have a lot of nostalgia for earlier times, life without the crazy frantic energy of what the digital/social media age has wrought. But I also have a genuine excitement about current and future knowledge/progress/technical and scientific discoveries. "Twennies" is the internal collision of those two polarities.
Sorbara wrote the album in Toronto with Los Angeles-based producer Dan Farber over the course of several weeks. The artist describes the record as a "true hybrid of my original influences as a child and what I've learned along the way," adding that it feels "representative of my musical journey."
Listen to "Twennies" below, where you can also find the album's tracklisting.
Twennies:
1. Seasick
2. Hysteria
3. New Suit
4. Twennies
5. T-Shirt
6. Winning
7. Stormy
8. This Is All You Get
9. Good Intentions
10. Outie
