Thermal — the Toronto-based project of Josh McIntyre (Prince Josh, Prince Innocence), Lauren Armstrong, Fox Atticus Martindale, Nate Burley and Adam LaFrambroise — have shared a new single today via Dalliance Recordings.
"Kiss the Ground" arrives alongside a split-screen music video by Lucy Mahoney and Brandon Kaufman, which adopts a distinctly summer-in-the-suburbs aesthetic not unlike the recent output of fellow Ontarians Chastity, and 9Million, the side project of Matthew Tomasi, who produced Thermal's debut EP, Plaster Girl.
"'Kiss the Ground' is about being stuck in a cycle of repetition within a relationship — believing that someone will change, and then being let down over and over again," Armstrong said of the track.
She added of the video, "We wanted it to feel as though someone was reflecting on a collection of memories of summer and chose to edit the video in a split-screen style to explore how the different clips could interact with each other, playing around with the parallels and differences between them."
Check out "Kiss the Ground" below, and stay tuned for another "'90s college rock"-inspired new single coming soon.