Adelaide, Australia-based indie rockers Placement returned last month with their new single, “New Disease”, a song that emerged from the musical devastation of the pandemic.
The sharp observant post-punk offering has a deliberate pace, reminiscent of some of the best from bands like Dry Cleaning and Protomartyr, before unraveling into a more jazzy and avant garde experiemntal tone that should have labels like 4AD calling in no time.
Speaking on the song, the vocalist Malia Wearn adds:
“Placement played our first show at the start of 2020 and soon found ourselves struggling to exist in a world where live music in its usual form was not possible. The ghost of the threat of sickness seeped into every part of life, and of course our music. Unsurprisingly, ‘New Disease’ is a pandemic song. It’s about the things we believe in, and how they change and distort us, forcing us away from or towards reality. Confirmation bias, isolation, coping mechanisms whatever they are, we who are here made it through, but of course we are changed. Sometimes all we need is to be fed a line we can hold on to, an excuse to keep doing whatever we want to do. All of us caught the new disease, whatever that was and we were never the same again.”
Enjoy a listen to “New Disease” now below.
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