After meeting in the comments section of Soundcloud, San Francisco‘s Omar Akrouche and Nicole Rowe discovered a certain artistic compatibility. The pair began working together, first under the moniker Glaçon Garçon, before settling on a new project, Worthitpurchase. Ahead of their debut album Dizzy Age, which is set for release this autumn, the band have unveiled the title track as the lead single.
In combining ethereal textures with a sense of motion, ‘Dizzy Age’ presents an oddly immersive sound. Like a dream set in a familiar place, where the sense of recognition drains away as the contours you thought you knew bend and blur. The result is as engaging as it is vertiginous, leaving one no option but to lean back and become enveloped by the movement.
The song’s rhythm speaks to its themes too. How motion is dizzying and strange, the comfort of the past getting further away as time continues on. A sensation supercharged in the current moment, where the progression of the new is ever-constant. ‘Dizzy Age’ is therefore worried for the present and wistful for the past, but more than that, haunted by the knowledge that there’s no return in this life. “The smallest feeling fuels a rocket to space,” Rowe sings. “I can’t stop thinking and I hate how things change / Trying to find a way / But I won’t go back, ‘cause I can’t get back.”
Check out the video directed by Serena Hughes and Sammy Lamb below:
Dizzy Age is out on the 2nd October, and you can find Worthitpurchase on Facebook and Instagram.
Photo by Malindi Walker