Australian singer-songwriter Gordi (aka Sophie Payten) and SOAK (aka Northern Irish folk musician Bridie Monds-Watson) have announced a new collaborative EP, Lunch at Dune. It arrives on November 15, and the title track, co-produced by Brad Cook, is out today. Check it out via the accompanying video below.
“I was sitting at the kitchen table of an Airbnb in East London in the last week of February in 2020,” Payten recalled in a press release. “It was cold and dark outside, and the streets were unnervingly silent. Refreshing my Twitter feed every 2 minutes to see which country had closed its borders, I wondered if I’d be able to get home, as the panic around the pandemic was swirling. I sat in the crippling uncertainty for a minute, and began to write. The next day I finished what became ‘Lunch at Dune’ in a small studio in Camden in the northern part of London.”
“The song is about feeling like there is something insurmountable in front of you and the only way through is perspective,” Payten continued. “In ‘Lunch at Dune’, I’m trying to give that perspective to someone I love.”
Monds-Watson added: “As a longtime fan of Gordi I was so hyped when she reached out to ask me to sing on this track. Something I’ve always found mesmerizing about her work is that each song feels like its own little universe. I think ‘Lunch at dune’ is a great example of this, a world of its own. I was less hype when Sophie asked me to jump in the freezing Irish sea at the start of winter for the video but I obliged and have since returned to my normal skin tone.”
