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The UK’s Flyte are excited to release a new single “Easy Tiger,”out today via Island Records. It marks the first bit of new music from the band since last fall’s White Roses EP. Recorded in Los Angeles, “Easy Tiger” feels timeless while rooted in the now it punctuates Flyte’s old school approach to songwriting with modern touches. It was written during a particularly raw period of time; lead singer of Flyte Will Taylor recorded a 20-minute voice-note about a painful breakup, as a warning to himself to “buckle up and get ready for a really shit time.” A startlingly frank yet beautifully poignant song, “Easy Tiger” was recorded with producer Justin Raisen (Angel Olsen, Ariel Pink) and Ali Chant (Aldous Harding) on mixing duties. The single immediately caught the attention of Mark Jenkin, the BAFTA-winning British director (Bait). During quarantine, Will and Mark started work on a music video, Mark’s trademark use of hand-processed and physically edited film serving as the perfect solution to the current limitations of film making during COVID-19.

Of the video Jenkin says, “The challenge was to make something that felt amorphous – to create something that has a tactile feel to it, is a single artefact, something that feels like a found film and something that is timeless, abstract and unidentifiable in some ways. For me, what’s exciting is those limitations – this is where my strength is, the great unknown.” Will notes, “When I wrote ‘Easy Tiger’ I was exorcising shame, heartbreak, jealously; almost impossible emotions to process, I almost regretted writing it. There’s a darkness and an emotional brashness to Mark’s work that suited the song perfectly. It would have been hard to trust anyone else with it.” Watch “Easy Tiger” here