Words: Ellie Ward
Having already racked up 100+ million online streams from their two earlier EPs (2015's 'Hallucinate', and 'Neurosis', in 2017), Los Angeles-via-Albuquerque, New Mexico identical twin alt-pop duo, Benjamin and Alexander Moore, aka Oliver Riot, share new song, 'Nervous'.
Produced by Eric Palmquist (Bad Suns, Half Alive) and featuring a stirring string arrangement by Thomas Lea (Rhye, Mary J Blige), the duo describe the sombre, emotive track - out now via AWAL - as "more of a poem than it is a song. The poem is about the feeling of being physically within proximity to someone you love while simultaneously knowing that they’re just out of emotional reach. Being inches apart while feeling miles out, watching the person slowly fade away, slipping like water through your fingertips as you try to clasp on harder and harder.
"Interestingly enough, most of us have experienced this feeling at some point in life. We’re all familiar with the devastating effects of living in constant nervousness, wondering when the person we depend on will disappear."
Listen here.
Live dates
OCTOBER
18 San Francisco, CA PopScene
24 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere (Zone One)
28 Los Angeles, CA The Moroccan
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