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London artist Coupdekat announces her debut album ‘Goodbye 2012!’, out August 7th.
Emerging in 2021, Coupdekat became a defining figure in the UK underground co-founding the female and gender-inclusive collective Loud LDN.
Last year, the pop experimentalist released the ‘BLOW HER UP AND SHE’LL BURST!’ EP and the fizzy 5-tracker ‘adventure the world she created / inside of her pocket*’.
Now, Coupdekat solidifies her early promise with a coming-of-age collection informed by neon, shopping trips at Claire’s Accessories and MySpace. It’s not a nostalgic rendering of a bygone era but an evocation of pre-social media online optimism: without invasive algorithms, commercialisation and the need to perform for an imagined audience.
Of the inspiration behind the album, Coupdekat shares:
“I wanted this album to be a return to a time before having a phone and social media, before the self-awareness and pressure of being perceived. I missed the freedom and spontaneity of girlhood, I was so much more confident expressing myself back then. I wanted ‘Goodbye 2012!’ to feel like a return to that moment in time. I made the album in New York, and being away from London and crossing the boundary into a new world let me embrace that spontaneity and fun I was looking for.”
Sonically, ‘Goodbye 2012!’ is a love letter to radical pop music, sharing a musical DNA with the likes of Fcukers, Bassvictim, Underscores.
In that vein, Coupedekat shares new single ‘kisses’, a minimal future-pop offering produced by Cowboy Lansky. Inspired by Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise trilogy, it captures the thrill of meeting someone but knowing that your time together is fleeting; living in the moment and living with the knowledge it will all come to an end.
Tune in now.
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Photo Credit: Iwan Apjohn-Williams