Alt-pop troubadour Will Joseph Cook returns with new single 'Driverless Cars'.
The song aired on Annie Mac just a few hours ago, and it's lyrically apt – a song about surrendering control, and moving past anxiety.
Typically daring in its approach to the pop template, it actually began as "a very dumb, literal way of trying to express a lack of control and clear direction in my life…"
He says: "Surrendering to the fact that a lot of what happens to us is out of our control. For me at least, that was a really uncomfortable and difficult thing to process."
"I wrote 'Driverless Cars' after a late night walk, the title lyric kind of just popped out when I was singing the melody. It made me laugh because it was such a contemporary way of describing a very contemporary feeling. Plus, it has a ‘trying to be deep’ stoner energy to it which is always entertaining, I wanted to reflect that in the video."
The single is out now, and the full video has a surreal, dream-like quality. Will continues:
"The video follows an unpredictably surreal night with friends, dodging interactions with an ominous beast. He represented the anxiety that uncertainty can bring, but it’s all good because we never let him join the party. It was also a perfect excuse to finally buy the tiny car of my dreams."
Tune in now.
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