Premiere: Little Kid Shares New Video for 'Somewhere in Between'
New album A million easy payments Out February 23rd via Orindal Records
February 22, 2024
Photo: Pat McKenna
Tomorrow, folk rockers Little Kid return with their seventh full-length album, A million easy payments, released through Orindal Records. The album was originally set to follow immediately after their 2020 effort, Metamorfosi Highwaybut the pandemic slowed that pace, allowing it to be written and recorded in successive bursts over the past three years.
As the band describes, “The resulting album is one of our most eclectic yet, with songs taking influence from a wider range of sources, recorded in different styles, conditions and fidelity…The title A million easy payments it's not directly related to any particular song, but it's connected to all of them. The repetition in many of these song structures can feel like the mundanity and impossibility of seemingly infinite, regular payoffs. There is a certain exhausted desperation, mixed with a bit of humor. Some of these songs get more personal than ever, while some of them contain the most ridiculous jokes I've ever been able to work into my writing. The best have a bit of both.”
Today, ahead of the album's full release, the band shared a new video for the record's lead single, “Somewhere in Between,” which premieres with Under the Radar.
“Somewhere in Between” is a wistful folk-rock romp that feels warm and dreamy but cuts through with a deeply catchy chorus. Acoustic acoustic guitars dance with loose beats and reflective keys, highlighting Kenny Boothby's hazy vocal tones and the track's nostalgic lyrical bent. With the chorus the song soars but remains utterly familiar, tracing confessions of longing and reflective imagery: “But now you're driving / Just over the limit on the highway / Cigarette but nothing to light it / A song came on the radio that made you you feel
like you haven't felt in years / And now you cry / Because every time you hear it you remember / A younger love but now you're undecided / If it's trash or a masterpiece / Probably somewhere in between.”
The video's director and animator, Alexandra Levy, says of the video, “I was very honored that my first animated music video would be for Little Kid. I love their songs and have been following the play for years now. Originally, I thought I would do it all by hand and imagined it would look something like William Kentridge's charcoal pieces. His method involves erasing and redraw on the same page, which is a technique that works well in my brain (I couldn't wrap my head around the hand-drawn frame-by-frame method). I love the relaxing nature of Kentridge's work — how the movement appears on the page. As I started working on the Little Kid video, I discovered how much fun it was to combine hand drawing with digital techniques and create a blend, and I left the charcoal dreams behind. Like any creative project, the end result was not at all what I could have predicted!”
Check out the song and video below. A million easy payments out tomorrow via Orindal Records.
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