Brighton-based four-piece The New Eves release the new double A-Side single, ‘Red Brick’ / ‘Whale Station’, produced by Marta Salogni (Bjork, English Teacher, Black Midi, Gorillaz) and out now via Transgressive.
The first new music released since their acclaimed debut album, The New Eve Is Rising, ‘Red Brick’ slowly builds the tempo with scything lyrics and urgent drums before evolving into The New Eves’ signature howl. ‘Whale Station’ is unique and poetic in nature, with winding stream-of-conscious lyrics. Both songs were entirely created by women – from the songwriting, performance, production and engineering to the mixing and mastering.
Speaking about ‘Red Brick’, The New Eves said: “’Red Brick’ began whilst we were recording our album at Rockfield Studios. After 9 days recording we had finished the album and were really riled up, so we used the studio to jam, leading to the intro of ‘Red Brick’. It took a while for us to revisit it but we did just as Violet been working on a poem about our trip to New York and she just started saying it all over the music. Everyone was like, what the hell was that. It’s a breakthrough song for us because it lead the way out of our album and into new territory. Violet gets her space to run wild and Nina gets her first go at playing lead guitar. In hindsight it’s very fitting how Transgressive called us up and suggested recording this single so soon after the album, just like how it was written. It felt mental at the time, to go into the studio a week after the album release, but it was very cathartic to be immediately capturing songs after the marathon that was the album. ‘Red Brick’ is the first song of something new.”
Speaking about ‘Whale Station’, they said: “’Whale Station’ began last summer as an inspired jam in a little house in the Swedish countryside. Ella started reading words from this book called ’Whale Nation’ and it was almost like she was speaking in tongues. It had such a fervour to it, we were all out of breath at the end. The jam lay dormant for a while, almost a year. When we were asked about a b-side for red brick we got the idea to record it. We were sad when we got told we couldn’t use the words from the book but in the end it proved to be a good thing. We all went into nerd mode and very quickly made the lyrics for the song, although it still wasn’t quite a song, more like a spine of one.
“Coming into the studio we didn’t have a set plan or structure and that was kind of the whole point. We wanted to make something mainly improvised and see what would happen. Marta who produced the session was really on board with this and facilitated our ideas in an amazing way. We recorded most of it live. The song knew what it wanted to be and we followed.”
