lavender proudly present their new single, 'wake up:arms too long'. lavender are Oskar Rice and Adam Jackson; friends since school, one a DJ/producer, one in an indie band, their burgeoning friendship saw them bonding over Elliot Smith as much as J Dilla. Their debut EP garnered praise and appreciation, with lead single 'peppermint’ currently on 22 million Spotify streams. Worldwide FM and NTS were hugely supportive, as were BBC 6Music stalwart Cerys Matthews and Jack Saunders and Nels Hylton at BBC Radio 1. On the track, the band said “This song is one that’s really close to both our hearts. It started when a dear friend of ours and long time collaborator Konoya (aka Jhootee), sent a voicenote the day our track ‘harlequin/los días azules’ came out, singing a part of it. Oskar took that voice note, chopped it, re-pitched it and turned it into the vocal sample the song was built around. Konoya has been sending us comically dramatic voice note speeches for years as a running joke that one day she’ll be sampled on a lavender outro. But surprised her with a chorus feature." "That main vocal sample really set the tone sonically and emotionally. The lyrics are semi-conversational and inspired by chats with konoya and also some of her art. It’s about empathy, and the necessity but also intensity of it. The duality of having a supportive figure/care giver and the weight that being that figure can carry. I guess the whole track has a bittersweetness to it in that sense. The artwork is by Konoya.”
