- 2024-10-16
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MUSIC
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Confidence Man Premieres New Song “SICKO” on BBC Radio 1
London-based Australian electro pop band Confidence Man, consisting of Janet Planet (vocals), Sugar Bones (vocals), Reggie Goodchild (production) and Clarence McGuffie (production), will release their third studio album “3AM (LA LA LA)” this Friday (October 18th).
From the album, the duo premiered a new song “SICKO” along with a music video on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is the fifth single and final pre-release single from the album.
It was written by Aidan Moore, Grace Stephenson, and Lewis Stephenson. Produced by Reggie Goodchild.
The band told Apple Music about the song, “We went out to the bush for a couple of days [near Melbourne] and set up our studio, and that track came out of nowhere. But it was shelved for a while, until we were back in London six months later. We pulled it off and gave it another run, and it scrubbed up so well. We really just wanted to push that dark, creepy, kind of sexy angle. If you wanted the perfect setting for this, you'd be strutting down an alleyway and there's thousands of photographers peering out the buildings, taking photos of you from the storeys above, and you are just looking so damn good.”- The new album comprises 12 songs, featuring a guest appearance from British singer Sweetie Irie.
The band recorded the album in there new home of London, exploring UK rave sounds of the '90s and '00s.
Sugar Bones said of the album, “It's a fucked up sort of world... It's 3am, it's never not 3am, and we party all the time.”
Janet Planet continued, “We pretty much wrote every single song when we were wrecked. We'd get blasted and stay up till 9am coming up with music, but we noticed that 3am was the hottest time for when we were on it and the best ideas were coming out.” -
Janet Planet said of their sonic mission, “We wanted to dehumanise pop music and make it over the top and ridiculous again. We wanted to revisit those sounds and then add pop hooks and vocals to them. I feel like that hasn't really been done before, besides The Prodigy.”
Their hero Jimmy Cauty of the KLF performed on a remix of the album's closing title track.
Janet Planet said, “I don't think he'd been to a gig in 25 years, and he came to see us at the Roundhouse in London. He's been mentoring us a bit ever since.” - source : BBC Radio 1
