Night Talks are back with another thrilling single with the release of “Roll On,” a rush of scintillating pop that gleams with the trio’s characteristic euphoria. They will also be playing a show at Resident in Los Angeles on Jul. 12. It’s the first new song the band has shared since the release of their superb second album Same Time Tomorrow. Delayed for release by the pandemic, they used the time to film music videos for every one of its tracks, cultivating a penchant for creating these fantastically absorbing and strange visual accompaniments to their music.
“Roll On” finds Night Talks hitching themselves to a breathlessly earnest medley that blitzes forward, carried weightlessly by beaming synths and riveting riffs. But the radiance just serves as an attempt to harness a particular kind of familiar anxiety that the trio faced while stuck in quarantine unable to do much but watch others perform.
Led by the shimmering vocals of Soraya Sebghati the single wrestles with the feelings that emerge out of such forced stagnation and the unfair comparisons we often create in such a dejected state. Yet the melody also just doesn’t relent, with guitarists and synth wizards Jacob Butler and Josh Arteaga dazzling away, buoying their shared harmonies with Sebghati to interstellar heights.
“It was a really tough time to be an independent musician with no real infrastructure, especially when looking at other, more successful acts, who were still able to release albums and play on late-night television,” Sebghati said of the track. “The only thing we could do was work on writing songs and other small projects, and that’s exactly what this song came out of. We wanted to capture the feeling of what it literally feels like to be stuck inside your apartment, unable to do much of anything.”
The new single also continues their tradition of stunning music videos with “Roll On.” Directed by Julianne Fox, it sees Sebghati caught in the chaotic and mind-bending world of quarantine. The film captures all the strange ways that being stuck at home has on the mind in a manner inspired by “Evil Dead 2.” As a particular kind of cabin fever sets in Sebghati does everything she can to try and make it out the door. But as she makes it to the other side the whole house starts tilting and tossing — leaving her dead-eyed on the couch and more than a little frazzled. Yet like the song the film’s saturated vibrance and off-beat surrealness add an exuberant bent to its horror elements.
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Words: Steven Ward
Night Talks tour
July 7 – Sofar Sounds – San Francisco, CA
July 8 – Sofar Sounds – San Francisco, CA
July 9 – Sofar Sounds – San Francisco, CA
July 12 – Resident – Los Angeles, CA
Watch the music video for “Roll On” the new single from Night Talks below!
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