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FAN GIRL
reveal new single
‘ELEVENELEVEN’
from forthcoming EP
‘REAL OR STAGED’
out Thursday September 5LISTEN TO “ELEVENELEVEN” NOW
“A refreshing & super inviting band, this is colour, this is chaos, and this is Fan Girl” – Tara Kumar – BBC1 Future Artists with Jack Saunders
“Fan Girl have mastered all of our favourite early 2000s tricks” – Life Without Andy
“Naarm/Melbourne band Fan Girl is a chaotic thread intertwining with the thundering guitars and the sardonic delivery of singer Noah Harris” – Backseat Mafia
Unruly Naarm/Melbourne band Fan Girl today reveal their hauntingly unsettling new track “eleveneleven”, the third offering from the eclectic outfit’s anticipated EP real or staged, set for release Thursday 5 September via AWAL Recordings.
“eleveneleven” continues the innovative streak of real or staged, following the sinister twists of “the last one” and the addictive energy of “little pig”. The grand, dark and dancy tune explores the experience of living in your memories and the ill-defined lines between such recollections and reality. Broken drum machines tick along, and chaotic trumpets scream while vocals float eerily across a song that builds and builds, proving that there is no such thing as repetition, only persistence.
Fan Girl on “eleveneleven”: “‘eleveneleven’ has been with us for a minute. Various styles, multiple iterations. Grand yet dark, long yet immediate. Two numbers, twice. We wanted it to be a little bit 60s horror film, a little bit 2024 end of the world and a little bit of everything in between. It is all a little wonky, broken and ominous, and not quite how you remember it.
We tracked it over a couple weeks, letting the experiments get the best of us. You can thank this momentary suspension of deadlines for the mechanically broken glitches, meandering haunted piano and god awful trumpet playing. You are welcome. Add in some ghostly backing vocals made possible by Merpire & World’s Best Neighbours and some bouncy clav via the speedy hands of Christy Wositzky-Jones. Once we had finished tracking the sprawling mess, we shipped it off to Andy Savours (Sorry, My Bloody Valentine, Black Country New Road) in London, who made sense of the chaos with his mixing prowess, before being delivered to Felix Davis (Porridge Radio, Folly Group, Do Nothing) for his trademark™ mastering genius. It’s yours now.”
“eleveneleven” drops alongside a nightmare inducing visual accompaniment. Filmed and directed by Luke Thomas, the dystopic VR fever dream sees a glitch in the matrix cause a group of bystanders to get caught up in a confusing alternate universe, where the lines of reality are blurred and all sense is lost – but things take a turn as the VR world starts to crumble, and the hackers lose control. Welcome to the simulation – an alternate hellscape where hackers rule the world, and Fan Girl’s music is catchy…
To launch the single, Fan Girl will be performing at Nighthawks in Melbourne thi
These dates follow the band’s recently wrapped run of Australian dates, which saw them light up venues in Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney with their exhilarating live performance. All tour details can be found at fangirl.com.au.
.About FAN GIRL
Brandishing an unruly sound audible to the ends of the earth, Naarm/Melbourne outfit Fan Girl unravel in an eclectic mix of intensity, colour, chaos and catchiness. After the tragic passing of founding member Jack Wood, a total re-evaluation of their place in music and a pandemic, Fan Girl is back with a wealth of exhilarating new music, coupled with their urgent, explosive live shows and an ever-growing appreciation for each other, life and obnoxious guitar music.
Their singles, “stupidstupid”, “american cowboy song”, and “falling” have garnered widespread acclaim both domestically and internationally, receiving praise from the likes of BBC Radio 1, KEXP FM, Radio X, triple j, DIY MAG, Rolling Stone, Pil
Fan Girl has earned an impressive array of support shows from the likes of Catfish & The Bottlemen, Ecca Vandal, Angie McMahon, The Vines and more. The band is set to embark on a run of headline dates throughout July 2024 in celebration of the new single “little pig”, lighting up stages in Melbourne, Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney before heading to the Europe and UK in September / October.
Fan Girl will release their new EP real or staged on Thursday 5 September via AWAL Recordings. “little pig” follows the excitement of real or staged’s initial single “the last one”, which received praise from triple j’s Home & Hosed as well support from a host of community radio stations across the country and acclaim from titles such as Life Without Andy, Backseat Mafia, Aus Music Scene and more.
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