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Nun EP out Nov. 26 on This Is Music

EP STREAM: Teengirl Fantasy – Nun EP

Following their sophomore LP Tracer (August 2012), Teengirl Fantasy are releasing a new EP in November as a teaser to their third album, set to drop in the spring.

The EP, titled Nun, consists of four instrumental tracks showcasing Teengirl Fantasy’s ability to mix different genres while staying true to their original free-form sound. “Eric” touches on genres such as drum’n’bass, jungle, and footwork, while title track “Nun” is a sprawling, yet percussion heavy club journey, building in verve throughout. “Platinum” features soaring airy synths offset by sparse hard-edged drums. The EP closes with “Nun Beat,” a version of “Nun” played at a different tempo to create a screwed R&B feel.

Overall, the production style of Nun builds on Teengirl Fantasy’s earlier works while showing progression into new territories, giving insight into where their sound is heading for their forthcoming third full-length.

The stunning video for lead track “Nun” is a fusion of footage gathered from several surveillance monitors set to Earth. Director Hans Lo pieced together these captured images of Earth’s ecosystems, ranging from the macro to microscopic. Gathered from an unstable & unknown source, video that seems to have once been high-definition is fully degraded, lossy to the brink of digital noise.

“I wanted to create a mood piece which hopefully carries/reflects the same intrigue and intricate nature of their music. It was a fun process burrowing through the voids of stock footage abyss and sharing similar reference points with the guys,” Hans Lo adds about the collaboration with Teengirl Fantasy.

While students at Oberlin College, Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi connected over a shared love of classic house and techno records that prompted them to make, “some kind of dance music that wasn’t just emulating what we were hearing.” The duo formed their music organically, improvising over loops that eventually materialized into full-fledged compositions. Rather than relying on triggering loops, or quantization, Teengirl Fantasy’s music has always been performed and composed live, resulting in a form of discourse between the band and their instruments. The result is a-typical for electronic dance music- colorful, maximalist textures and tones that move along with a driving rhythm yet still retain a distinctly human and emotional core.

In the fall of 2010, True Panther Sounds and Merok released Teengirl Fantasy’s debut LP, 7AM. Titled after the, “confused, dreamy, half-awake, half-asleep state that one experiences after staying up all night partying,” 7AM was critically praised for its creative use of samples and experimentation.

On their sophomore LP, Tracer, Teengirl Fantasy featured an array of vocalists including Panda Bear, Romanthony (of Daft Punk’s “One More Time” fame), Laurel Halo, and Kelela. Tracer touched on an array of genres such as techno, pop, R&B, and house.

Teengirl Fantasy’s Nun EP will be released digitally via This Is Music on Nov. 26 in the USA and Nov. 25 in the rest of the World.

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