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This Friday, January 12 marks the arrival of UK experimental post-punk darlings Folly Group‘s highly anticipated debut album, Down There!, to be released via So Young Records / Communion.
Fresh off the heels of an acclaimed 2021 debut EP Awake And Hungry and last year’s Human And Kind (which received a perfect 5-star review from DORK, and a glowing 4-stars from DIY), Folly Group’s long-awaited debut was introduced last year with three singles — “Strange Neighbour,” “Big Ground,” and “I’ll Do What I Can.” With an approving nod to their relentless avoidance of genre convention and stunning union of electronic and post-punk elements.
Today, the band further celebrates their forthcoming record’s arrival with one last single, “Pressure Pad.” Their newest cut, which lyrically touches on the all-consuming power of unconditional love, sees the band combining angular guitar lines with frenetic drumming, and synths reminiscent of 8-bit video games, before the track takes one of the album’s frequent unexpected diversions: this time into a trumpet section.
As vocalist/drummer Sean Harper wrote:
“Musically, ‘Pressure Pad’ is a testament to how far we’ve come as collaborators. Every different kind of remote or in-the-room collaboration we’ve ever found fruitful was involved in creating this Frankenstein’s Monster of a single. Its final version arrived after months of exchanging files, ideas and needless spanners in the works. This is probably the 6th or 7th iteration of this song, and its final form was ultimately dictated by a deadline – we’d probably never have been able to call it finished otherwise. Every room in which this album was made has birthed one or more elements of ‘Pressure Pad:’ Louis’s flat, Tom’s flat, our rehearsal space, the studio where we recorded the bulk of the record.
Lyrically, it touches on someone else being a massive part of your self, but loving it. It’s about totally going with the flow of a relationship, becoming someone you never otherwise would have been, but not over-analysing that, rather being grateful for it.”
