Electronic powerhouse KUČKA has announced her second album on LUCKYME®, titled Can You Hear Me Dreaming?, to be released this summer on July 12. Alongside this news, KUČKA shares a single from the album ‘Wasting Time (til the end of the world)’ and an accompanying apocalyptic music video.
The opening track of the album, ‘Wasting Time (til the end of the world)’ contrasts KUČKA’s anxiety at the state of the world with hyper-optimistic production setting the tone of the album: forever slipping into dissociative fantasy worlds. It is a shot in the arm to tackling reality blues, KUČKA says on the track: “We’re in a bleak time right now, our algorithms jump wildly between atrocities, viral animal videos, adverts, conspiracy theories. They all find their way into our subconscious. ‘Wasting Time’ is about how we keep on going – often ignoring reality – and feed the chaos as a means of escape.” She jokes it’s “something you’d listen to with your friends while driving through a burning city.”
The playful music video, directed by KUČKA’s wife Dillon Howl, bounces off this idea, following KUČKA as a pair of neon gigolos dancing and playing in graffiti’d ruins, surrounded by arid hills. Weeds force themselves through the tarmac of long-forgotten roads, only to be run over by speeding remote-controlled toy cars, kicking up dust that the twin clowns dance in.
Can You Hear Me Dreaming?:
- Wasting Time (Til The End Of The World)
- Heaven
- Can’t Help It
- Cry Cry Cry
- Heavyweight
- Communal Reverie (feat. PESH)
- Mountain
- One More Night (feat. Flume)
- Wedding
- Messed Up
- Gross Body (feat. PESH)
- Not There
