ALASKALASKA REVEAL NEW SINGLE AND ANIMATED VIDEO “TOUGH LOVE”

The album’s lead single “Moon” caught the eye of national radio with the BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac and Jack Saunders and BBC Radio 6 Music’s Gilles Peterson spinning the track regularly last month – and its vibrant visuals directed by Elliot Arndt can be viewed HERE along with the found footage film for album track “Bees” by Ashley Rommelrath HERE. The Dots is available on pre-order HERE.

Providing an insight into the single and video ALASKALASKA’s vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Lucinda Duarte-Holman said, “‘Tough Love’ is a protest and a paradox. It is an invite to each individual listener to interpret however they like.” Animator Scott-Dyson orginally wanted to mirror nature, reproduction and the human body in his visuals, but once the track’s lyrics embedded, he changed tack, “I didn’t think having abstract patterns and things would suffice. So something of a loose structure began to build, based on someone being captured and their thoughts and feelings being harvested into seeds. It went in more of a sci-fi based direction but all done in very loose, obscure ways.” The new single – along with “Moon” and “Bees” – are perfectly at home on a record packed with fluid, intelligent and utterly remarkable left-of-centre pop songs.

Following the release of The Dots this Friday, May 3rd, ALASKALASKA will be heading out once again on a headline tour of the U.K. – which includes a homecoming show at Omeara on May 15th. Tickets for all of the dates are available HERE.