New Music: Surf Harp – Willowing

The imminent release of Language is Lost, the new album from Surf Harp, sees them drop another inventive and enjoyable visualiser for a featured track. Check out the retro stylings of Willowing below.

The song has a wonderfully idiosyncratic ambience to it, but remains engaging and accessible. Think Of Montreal jamming with Talk Talk or XTC, then you’ll get a feel for Willowing. The lyrics and vocals especially invite comparisons with Andy Partridge and Kevin Barnes respectively, taking the listener on an amazing sonic journey through adventurous leftfield indie-pop.

The accompanying video for Willowing features the group’s principal songwriters Phil Bolton and Jeff Koplovitz being transported into a Japanese Panasonic Word Processor and converted into ascii, where the band says they “sing from within a digital wasteland and lament the fragmentation of perspective imposed by modern technology.”

Language is Lost comes out on the 25^th of August via Shiny Boy Press and is currently up for pre-order in digital, cassette, and vinyl editions over on Bandcamp. For further listening options for Willowing and pre-save options for the LP, head over to the band’s Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok socials.