Huntly Releases DROP GEAR Single and Video

Introducing Melbourne trio Huntly, who have just released "Drop Gear," their brand new song. "Drop Gear" premiered on triple j and Noisey last night. Huntly have built an underground reputation as one of Australia's most evocative and dynamic live electronic acts, bringing emotional vulnerability to the dance floor, making radical electronic pop songs wherein the personal and political coexist.

On "Drop Gear," Huntly marry intimate songwriting with forward-thinking dance music to astonishing effect. "Drop Gear" is a song about tension, restlessness and alienation.

Lead singer Elspeth explains "Drop Gear is set at the tipping point of two relationships. It starts messy on a hot night in summer, and it builds with the momentum of wanting someone and trying to hold it back from them. Drop Gear is that energy, that distance I needed to put between me and someone else before it imploded."

Co-producers and band members Charlie and Andy replicated the song's narrative with slow-attack swelling synths, rising percussion and layered vocal samples - creating a flow of rising and releasing. "Andy specifically wanted the sound to represent that flooding feeling that the words "Oh god" convey, trying to offer an emotional release of that tension."

"Drop Gear" comes with an orgiastic hypercut-sporting video that can only be described as a true visual freak-out. Created by Australian Reflexx (Directors Jack Jen Atherton & André Shannon) the video is compiled of collection of low-fi recording techniques from infrared cameras to handycams and iphones, "Drop Gear'"is part music video - part performance piece - part dance off.

Huntly - "Drop Gear" is out now via Barely Dressed Records.

Photo Credit: Phebe Schmidt

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