The xx’s Romy has shared new solo single ‘The Sea’.
The songwriter will release new album ‘Mid Air’ on September 8th via Young, blending club tropes with emotive musicality. Singles such as ‘Loveher’, ‘Enjoy Your Life’, and ‘Strong’ have paved the way, with Romy now sharing something new.
Out now, ‘The Sea’ leans in to her inimitable sense of soul, mirroring Womack & Womack, say, with future-facing production. Romy handles production alongside Fred again.. and Stuart Price, while the Mollie Mills shot video features Romy and her wife, Vic Lentaigne.
Mollie Mills comments…
“Romy always evokes this feeling of euphoria — and with this track specifically touching on wrestles of romance — through a queer lens, it intuitively evoked something about this kind of intertwinement of bodies, both in intimacy and in club culture.”
“I had loosely referenced Louise Bourgeois’ sculpture The Couple which actualises that soul-rupturing entanglement of falling in love — and this is what we wanted to feel in these seascape scenes. This light, blissful, euphoric togetherness that happens alongside these memory slices of euro-heaven. There’s a power that can live in the simplicity of these domestic moments between two queer bodies too — when I think back to the loves of summers past, the memories I have are always the small details, a billowing curtain or a lovers hair after they shower…”
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Bryan Novak
