Premiere: Simian Mobile Disco's Jas Shaw and musician Alev Lenz share new single 'A World Beyond'
The first disc Bring your friends released on February 23rd
January 30, 2024
Photo: Laura Lewis
Alev & Jas is the new collaborative project from singer/songwriter, composer and producer Alev Lenz and Jas Shaw, one half of electronic duo Simian Mobile Disco. The pair are longtime friends and collaborators, and during the pandemic, they began collaborating for the first time on a full-length album, their forthcoming debut, Bring your friends. The album finds the pair combining Jas' translucent synth soundscapes with Alev's dreamy vocal tones, playing off each other as ethereal vocals and synths swirl together.
The pair debuted their first single, “All Of The Weeds,” last year, and today they're back with their latest release, “A World Beyond,” premiering on Under the Radar.
“A World Beyond” is a fittingly eerie lullaby, with Alev and Jas floating in a glassy environment. Jas' synths dance around Alev's feathery vocals, each note acting as a burst of light and color across the spacious expanse of the track. The results create an ambient hypnotic calm. Soft melodies and dreamy lyricism intertwine until synths and vocals feel almost indistinguishable, while Alev issues an invitation to escape the confines of digital life: “There's a world beyond your screen / Dream with me.”
Alev says the track is meant to encourage listeners to “practice opening other windows to the world and our hearts, our oneness.” Jas continues by saying “Looking at your phone is no longer futuristic. Instead of ranting about the Internet, we can just remind ourselves that it's great outdoors, bigger than the Internet, more wonderful, more connected, more futuristic.”
Check out the song below. Bring your friends released everywhere on February 23rd.
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