Expanding upon the bodeful, experimental parts of their debut EP, Brooklyn duo Sex Week return with new single ‘Coat’, as well as announce a tour with UK shows at Green Man and Manchester Psych Fest. Stretching its dreamy limbs into the shadow, ‘Coat’ lingers between intimacy and distance.
It sways, slowly. Becoming a breath between words, sagging, unravelling, slipping loose stitch by stitch. Through it all, Pearl Amanda Dickson’s and Richard Orofino’s vocals stay soft, almost impalpable. A whisper of what they dare not shout, but a memory murmured under breath, or a confession caught in the throat. “If you had a heart/ And if I told you/ I do love you/ And if it was so hard/ Then why is it gone?” It’s the remnants of a steamy fling, but the heat lingers in the fabric, bodies once pressed together pulling apart with hesitation.
Sex Week inside Issue Fifty-One of So Young (Aug 2024).
Looping back on itself, ‘Coat’ is a track that will not let go, a memory that will not settle, an echo folding upon itself. Airy synths and slow, trudging guitars feel silvery, and metallic—glinting one moment and gone the next. Draped over the shoulders of a beat that barely holds itself up, swaying in the wind of its own making. It plunges and stirs in its own quiet dread—dragged down, down, by the undertow of its own unease. It’s a song that effortlessly clings to the skin.
Photo by Alyssa Vitalino and Dillon Camp
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