Dream pop duo Quiet Houses have shared new song ‘Hot And Clumsy’.
The songwriting pair – Edinburgh-bred, Manchester-based Jamie Stewart and Hannah Elliott – closed 2022 in style, basking in the afterglow of successful debut EP ‘Big Town’.
Dreamy pop music reflected through a guitar-based lens, the duo have a minimalist palette, but make each note count. Starting their New Year in style, Quiet Houses have just shared alluring new cut ‘Hot And Clumsy’, dealing with the awkwardness of initial attraction.
Lyrically open, ‘Hot And Clumsy’ finds Quiet Houses experimenting with their style, cribbing notes from super-producer Aaran Dessner in the process.
Jamie Stewart explains…
“‘Hot and Clumsy’ is about the nervous excitement of being young and liking someone at a party. The song celebrates the awkwardness of being vulnerable with someone, it embraces the moments we are all embarrassed about.”
“Around the time we started writing the song I was learning lots of math-rock style riffs. I had a few riffs of my own but didn’t feel they would work in our music until I paired one of them with the drum loop that plays throughout ‘Hot and Clumsy’. The loop comes from this drum machine app called FunkBox which I read about in an Aaron Dessner interview. I took this idea to Hannah and we wrote the rest of the tune that week.”
“We loved the awkward energy of the music and wrote the lyrics around that. The song is about the nervous excitement of being young and liking someone at a party. We wanted it to celebrate the awkwardness of being vulnerable with someone, and embrace the moments we are all embarrassed about.”
A neat guitar pop burner that recalls Samia, Dizzy, or even American Football, you can check it out now.