Solo Career’s (the bedroom pop project of Body Type’s Annabel Blackman) releases new single ‘Spenda’.

‘Spenda’ is crazed, robotic, electro-pop (replete with jagged guitars and vocals pitched so high they mimic a kid having a temper tantrum) about the agony and addiction of online shopping. “It’s a sad thing when you’re caught in the futility of trying to buy someone a present,” says Blackman. But despite the song’s mechanical bent, there is a hidden layer of sweetness – it’s really a love song about hoping a gift will embody all your affection for someone (“I want to buy you everything”, as Blackman coos).

It’s the second single from Solo Career’s debut album Interior Delirium (out July 11), a glorious and sly synth pop record about the absurdity of identity – how we perform for others and ourselves, the puppetry that plays out across culture, and the freak impulses that startle our sense of self. It’s fitting for a project that was borne from musician Annabel Blackman’s interest in the uncanny and reflective possibilities of persona. “The album revolves around awkwardness, earnestness, gripe-picking, lustful stewing, play and self-deprecation,” says Blackman. If her first solo EP The Sentimentalist (2021) was a dreamy strut, Interior Delirium is an unruly waltz, where foggy, late-night longing merges with stomping, hilarious, cyborg satire.