Full Flower Moon Band, the hypnotic art-rock outfit led by Kate ‘Babyshakes’ Dillon, return with Endless Summer, a brand-new single and video, and the first taste of their fourth album After Dark, out February 26 via Impressed Recordings.
Don’t let the title fool you. Endless Summer is a much darker anthem than it lets on. “Endless Summer is the voice of a manic episode,” says Dillon. “This hopeless, frantic optimism is summarised in the chorus lyric: ‘you can have an endless summer, anytime the sun comes out’. What began as a simple instrumental track is now unleashed onto the world as an unnerving battle cry.”
The accompanying video mirrors that push and pull. Stark black and white footage of life in New York captures the city at its darkest, broken up by flashes of vibrant live performance and snapshots of Dillon performing as a child. It’s the song’s tension playing out on screen, the girl who first took the stage and the woman who owns it now, all blurring together. “It gives me the feeling of being nostalgic for something that happened only moments ago,” Dillon says. “When life’s highs and lows move so quickly, you end up feeling nothing at all. That emotional distance feels connected to the cynicism at the heart of the song.”
