Originating as the project of San Francisco duo Omar Akrouche and Nicole Rowe, Worthitpurchase established a distinctive art/dream pop style with Dizzy Age. The record was one “worried for the present and wistful for the past,” as we put it, “but more than that, haunted by the knowledge that there’s no return in this life.” Its combination of anxious rhythm and transportive atmosphere lending a hyperreal quality to the sound.
Worthitpurchase teamed up with Anxiety Blanket Records for single ‘Inbetween‘, and having added Eric Van Thyne to the band, have now announced a brand new full-length with the label. Truthtelling refines the Worthitpurchase aesthetic, pushing further into the juxtaposition of experimental pop soundscapes and intimate, personal themes to fully capture the anxiety of the moment.
The band didn’t need to work hard to get inside such a headspace. Recording took place amid raging wildfires and the global pandemic, forces which interrupted plans and made recording fragmented and difficult. Latest single ‘Calendar Talk’ confronts this head-on, exploring what it means to live and create in a world falling apart at the seams. A song personal in scope but moved by the disorder around it, emerging all the more relatable and convincing as a result. “At the time, the [recording] process felt chaotic,” Van Thyne admits, “but listening now, it comes across as seamless and earnest.” Because in times like these, how else is there to work?
I keep forgetting to cross off the days on my calendar
I’m in a phase where I can’t seem to let anything go
Driving north in a sunset rewinds time
Don’t forget to set the upper limits on your life
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There’s also a video for the track directed by Nikki Milan Houston with photography by Owen Summers. Check it out below:
Truthtelling is out via Anxiety Blanket on the 5th August and you can pre-order it now from the Worthitpurchase Bandcamp page.
