Let Nice Biscuit be your midweek getaway.
The Brisbane psych rockers are back with a new track from their upcoming album, SOS, and it’s all about escaping burnout.
“Fade Away” is full of hypnotic grooves, with Grace Cuell and Billie Star’s harmonies and the band’s signature fuzz guitars creating an atmosphere that’ll give you a break from the workday arvo grind.
“I want to fade away,” they sing, offering a dreamy escape.
“Both Billie and I have the kind of people-pleasing tendencies that land us in trouble from time to time. This song is about accepting that sometimes you just have nothing to give, and that’s ok!” Cuell explains.
If the track doesn’t take you away, the accompanying music video might.
The extremely vibey clip, created by Meanjin-based film company 18 Degrees, shows the band cruising through their local West End neighbourhood in a vintage car before they literally take off into space. You can watch it below.
“We wanted the video to emulate the feeling of burn out and desire to get away from life in a fun way”, they say.
“Fade Away” follows recent single “The Star”, with both tracks set to feature on Nice Biscuit’s forthcoming second album, SOS, dropping on October 4th.
Recorded at Swan Pond Studios in Queensland and mixed by Mildlife’s Jim Rindfleish, the nine-track album promises the upbeat psych sound Nice Biscuit have become known for, with “new danceable feels influenced by their love of disco, jazz fusion and world music.”
The album, just like “Fade Away”, is about finding calm in a chaotic world. The band sum it up as follows:
“Sometimes we feel hopeful and grateful, sometimes pessimistic and desolate, sometimes mournful and angry at the system, sometimes we feel that love can solve it all and sometimes we just become overwhelmed and apathetic about everything.”
SOS follows their 2018 debut Digital Mountain and their 2021 EPs Create Simulate and Passing Over.
Nice Biscuit have had a big year so far with a national tour supporting Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and their own sold out headline shows across the East Coast.
Nice Biscuit’s “Fade Away” is out now via Bad Vibes.
