Sydney garage-pop favourites Flowertruck have today shared their fresh single ‘Pretending’, which soundtracks the announcement of a brand new album.
Dubbed Partly Cloudy, the indie band’s sophomore LP is due to arrive on Friday, 2nd September and will feature previously released singles ‘Crying Shame’ and ‘Sing Along To Your Life’.
“Like a fruitbat on a powerline, that main line just burst into my head”
The disc’s third lick, ‘Pretending’ was co-written by Flowertruck’s Charles Rushforth, David Gauci, Sarah Sykes and Will Blackburn. Long-time Flowertruck collaborators Bowen Shakallis and John Lee engineered and mixed the track, which reflects on the extreme lengths to which people go in order to move on from someone who’s hurt them.
Rushforth, the band’s lead vocalist, explained in a press release: “I remember Leonard Cohen saying that there are two types of songs; ones that take twenty minutes to write and those that take two years. I’d written the music for ‘Pretending’ years prior, but I had to put it on the shelf after failing to find any words that could fit the song.”
Rushforth said the words eventually came very suddenly, after an experience last year where he rocked up to a children’s birthday party hungover. “Like a fruitbat on a powerline, that main line just burst into my head – ‘I’m just pretending that you weren’t important’. From there the rest of the song came together really quickly.”
Take the track for a spin above, or pre-save Flowertracks’s new LP, Partly Cloudy, right here.
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