Kidbug has shared their latest single, Dreamy, which features guest musician Dale Crover (Melvins, Nirvana, Redd Kross). Consisting of a smattering of footage from mid-century education films, edited together by Kidbug’s Adam Harding, the band describes the video as “a 1950s dream of death-defying deeds and destruction.” Watch the video clip for Dreamy via YouTube below.
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Born from the romance of Tadic and Harding, together with Harris and Bruno they make “cuddlebug sludge”, the harmoniously spiky offspring of Harding’s fuzzy guitar grunge-gaze and Tadic’s dreamy left field pop.
Kidbug’s roots date back to December 2018. While at Joyful Noise Recordings’ Indianapolis headquarters for the label’s annual holiday party, Australian transplant Adam Harding was first introduced to the Croatian-born, Netherlands-based artist Marina Tadic. “We all convened at Postal Recording in Indianapolis to record Christmas songs for the label, and it just sort of grew from there,” Harding explains. When Tadic learned that Harding was also an accomplished video maker (having directed music videos for DJ Shadow, Warpaint, Best Coast, Swervedriver, Sebadoh) she asked if he would make a video for Eerie Wanda before she was due to leave town. According to Tadic, the creative sparks started flying immediately, inspiring a series of long-distance musical love letters. “The writing started when I went back home. We were both very inspired to start writing songs to each other. It’s a funny thing because we’re both really slow at songwriting, but for some reason the songs just kept flowing. Within two months or so we had enough to make an album.”
The initial results were raw, personal, and naked in their emotional honesty, with a purity of expression that Tadic and Harding were eager to preserve. “We made a pact that whatever came out, we wouldn’t second guess it,” says Harding. Adds Tadic: “We were inspired by the honesty and purity of John and Yoko singing love songs to each other. We wrote these songs for each other, and there was no reason to overthink them or purposefully obscure the lyrics, which made both the writing and recording process really fun and spontaneous.”
Kidbug’s self-titled debut is fueled by deeply charged electrical love, and the band hopes to return that magical energy to listeners. “This album is a celebration of love,” says Harding. “We hope to bring love into the world with this album” Tadic adds. “We dig love”.
| ‘Kidbug’ track listing 1. Now Let’s Go To Sleep 2. Lovesick 3. Good Inside 4. Moonglue 5. Never 6. Woozy 7. Theme from Kidbug 8. Together 9. Stay 10. Yesterdays 11. Dreamy |
