SAD NIGHT DYNAMITE SHARE NEW SINGLE & VIDEO, ‘WAKE UP PASS OUT ‘
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Sad Night Dynamite have shared new single ‘Wake Up Pass Out’, alongside a horror-movie of a music video directed by BAFTA-nominated Balázs Simon. The band’s much-anticipated debut album, Welcome The Night, will be released on September 27th, introduced by first single ‘Sugabby’ – their UK/EU headline tour follows later this year.
‘Wake Up Pass Out’ is a pitch-black, darkly comic club-pop banger, unpicking the toxic bind between generational ennui and modern-day hysteria. A Frankenstein’s monster of Timbaland-obsessed beats and anthemic electro, the boys place a surreal spin on that sense of a generation overwhelmed in the ‘Wake Up Pass Out’ video; a cinematic tour-de-force, where the grotesque creature at the door quite literally comes to life. Sad Night Dynamite introduce ‘Wake Up Pass Out’ as “about being stuck in a cycle. I think everyone suffers from this: we are beings of habit, time is relentless, and this can feel claustrophobic. Although there are fleeting messages of desperation throughout, the lyrics are erratic, as if you’re inside someone’s mind whilst it’s racing. The chorus is deliberately shallow and provocative, playing the antagonist – which we love doing, as nobody’s above this and everyone is guilty.”
Director Balázs Simon, meanwhile, comments: “I love the sardonic honesty in Archie and Josh’s music. ‘Wake Up Pass Out’ immediately reminded me of how social media takes our lives over, with the sole goal of grabbing our attention and consuming us. In the end we become our own monsters, and that’s where the idea for the video came from. Am I guilty to say I had the most fun creating something so shallow? It was a crazy project to pull off – from shooting live action to motion-capture, and 3D scanning the guys to covering Tower Bridge and the streets of London. But seeing Sad Night Dynamite spend a whole day glued together in a prosthetic body suit complete with tentacles made up for all the complexity.”
A disruptive young duo wreaking havoc in plain sight, Sad Night Dynamite’s debut album, Welcome The Night, drops next month. Exploring themes of paranoia, surveillance, dystopia and escapism, the band’s signature blend of surreal character-studies, waspish humour, and serious undertones are blown up to their greatest proportions yet. Theirs is an equally silly and sinister world designed to allow a disenfranchised generation some comfort in incoherence, rather than all-out chaos: recent single ‘Sugabby’, for instance, tells a story of love, betrayal and sugamums, with the “family is forever” strapline of teaser track ‘Godfather’ neatly encapsulating a project in which leaning into life’s absurdism may prove a path towards taking back power over The Night. Featuring guests ranging from the Mercury-nominated BERWYN to breakout stars like Aby Coulibaly, this project of chosen-family is bound by uncanny, AI-generated art that further blurs the line between frivolous high jinks and pending apocalypse.
From its genre-spliced sound to the particulars of its cinematic-universe, Sad Night Dynamite are well and truly in their own lane (and with the second-hand limousine adorning their artwork recently breaking down around Glastonbury, also blocking the road). They summarise Welcome The Night as “us stumbling in the dark, trying to make sense of music, life, and our twenties. The modern world lacks a guiding light; it’s fractious and bloated. Welcome The Night embraces this confusion as a knee-jerk reaction to an overstimulated world. The music is our most intense and erratic to date, accepting life’s absurdity and deliberately provocative. We see it as a humorous soundtrack to our demise—if the world were to end, ‘WTN’ would offer clues as to how it happened”.
Welcome The Night – Headline Tour
23.10.24 || Leeds || Belgrave Music Hall
24.10.24 || Glasgow || King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
25.10.24 || Manchester || Band On The Wall
27.10.24 || Bristol || Trinity
29.10.24 || London || EartH Downstairs
31.10.24 || Paris || Trabendo
01.11.24 || Zurich || Bogen F
02.11.24 || Cologne || CBE
03.11.24 || Amsterdam || Tolhuistuin