EGOISM SHARE NEW SINGLE & VIDEO 'LONELY BUT NOT ALONE'
Image Credit: Cath Connell
"Forget all the dud moments of 2020 and celebrate how good of a band EGOISM has been this year. Track after track Olive and Scout have been striking winning blows with their thoughtful mix of dreamy patterns and tingly lyricism."
- DAVE RUBY HOWE, TRIPLE J
"Shimmering and golden. This is the sonic-form of the sparkle emoji."
- LUCY SMITH, TRIPLE J
"They have quickly won us over with their introspective dream-pop sound that consistently creates standout tracks."
- PURPLE SNEAKERS
Today, EGOISM return with their latest banger, ‘Lonely But Not Alone’ and it’s companion video directed by Nick Mckk (Stella Donnelly, Julia Jacklin, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever). It’s the first single from the band in 2021 after last year’s On Our Minds EP and comes on the heels of them supporting Odette on their East Coast tour.
Scout Eastment and Olive Rush, from Sydney’s inner west are EGOISM. Pilerats described the duo’s music as “amongst the most euphoric you’ll find. It’s blissful, indulgent with hazy guitar melodies and lo-fi vocals that wrap around you with a warmth and comfort that makes every tone and every note feel so happily familiar with positive emotions. Underneath, however, is where the storm often looms - songwriting being a major process for reflection and introspective thoughts for both of them.”
Scout and Olive say "This song is us trying to put to music the feeling of lying next to someone and feeling unbearably separate to them, like it’s a futile cause to try and be understood. We really felt that way about each other when we wrote it late last year, and things only felt worse in the months afterwards. Somehow actually working on it together and getting it done almost reversed that process, there’s something about hearing the other person's perspective over and over again in a home studio that breeds empathy.This is our first song where we each take a verse. Recently we've been treating each other like pop stars instead of the obsessive music nerds we are and suddenly all this ridiculous personality has started flowing out of our lyrics."
The video for ‘Lonely But Not Alone’ was filmed in rural Victoria and according to the band was intended “to feel like the dread of going nowhere and never ever improving, but maybe you don't realise that's what's happening. Just driving around feeling really lonely even though you're right next to the person that's supposed to understand you the most.” Director, Mckk says “The idea of having a bit of fever dream was a great fit, out in the Melbourne sticks, in a Saab convertible. Scout and Olive had an idea to try a dolly zoom, something I'd never really done. I felt like it really added to the feeling of disconnect and unease that the clip was going for.”
Pegged as ones-to-watch, EGOISM have won acclaim from industry tastemakers. In 2019 they toured with Pinkish Blu, played Bigsound, were nominated for both Song of the Year and Next Big Thing in the fbi SMAC awards and became triple j Unearthed’s 11th most played artist of the year. In 2020, the band were announced as one of 16 recipients of Unearthed's Level Up COVID Grants and reached #11 in the community radio charts.
ODETTE SUPPORT TOUR DATES
Friday 21 May | The Triffid, Brisbane, QLD
Saturday 22 May | The Northern, Byron Bay, NSW
Sunday 23 May | Hota, Gold Coast, NSW
Friday 4 June | The Factory Theatre, Sydney, NSW
Saturday 5 June | The Cambridge, Newcastle, NSW
Friday 11 June | UOW Uni Bar, Newcastle, NSW
Saturday 12 June | Fiction, Canberra, A.C.T
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'LONELY BUT NOT ALONE' IS OUT NOW
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