Romy has shared a new single off her forthcoming album with the release of the euphoric dance romancer “The Sea.” Her 11-track solo debut Mid Air arrives on September 8th featuring collaborations with fellow multi-hyphenate Fred Again.. and legendary singer/songwriter Beverly Glenn-Copeland. Exploring cycles of love and heartbreak — as well as a triumphant reclamation of identity and sexuality — the album is a kind of ecstatic personal homecoming. One that serves as an ode to the transformative time she spent DJing in London’s queer clubs.
Staying true to the credo of creating “emotional music to dance to,” her latest release “The Sea” intersects the exhilaration offered by propulsive and danceable pop with a liberating expression of sexuality. It also marks the latest song in which the artist has embraced the use of female pronouns when singing about past and current relationships — as on the glittering ode to falling in love, “Loverher.”
On “The Sea,” she once more contends with the overwhelming rapture that occurs when you find yourself entangled with another person emotionally. Against a live-wire melody and the pulsating rush of oceanic passion, Romy dives into the depths of this new love, finding herself both buoyed and trapped in its undertow. Syncing all the giddy highs and fearful lows to the cresting waves of melodic electronica that ebb and crash throughout the track. It’s a song that both celebrates and contends lucidly with the commitment of such a connection.
“The Sea” is also accompanied by a stunning music video directed by Mollie Mills and stars Romy alongside her wife and longtime visual collaborator Vic Lentaigne. It combines a collage of intimate moments between the two, from scenes of them entwined in tender physical intimacy in their home to these arresting shots of them standing face-to-face with a limitlessly blue ocean behind them. Initially, they stand separate and apart. But as the video continues — spliced with moments of blurred bodies loosening themselves on the dancefloor — they start to embrace.
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Mills on the inspiration behind the music video: “I had loosely referenced Louise Bourgeois’ sculpture ‘The Couple’ which actualizes 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 lover’s hair after they shower.”
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Mid Air the new album from Romy is out September 8th, pre-order it here.
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Romy tour
29 July Fuji Rock, Japan
05 August Trädgården, Stockholm, Sweden
07 August Circoloco @ DC10, Ibiza
12 August Margate Pride Afterpary, Margate, UK
25 August Rock En Seine, Paris, France
28 August All Points East, London, UK
30 August Pacha, Ibiza
31 August Hi, Ibiza
24 September Making Time, Philadelphia, USA
Words: Steven Ward
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