Composer and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has teamed up with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard for a brand new EP: Neptunes is out November 22 through the Domino imprint Smugglers Way. The 2 artists have additionally launched the challenge’s title observe, together with a mollusk-filled video directed by Aron Sanchez-Baranda. Test it out beneath.
On “Neptunes,” Goddard wished to pay homage to Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo’s influential manufacturing partnership of the identical identify. Smith, nevertheless, thought the title had a extra cosmic inspiration. “I beloved what the rhythm made me really feel once I first heard it,” she stated in press supplies. “I really thought he was tapping into Neptune as a planet, and the qualities I felt it possesses. So my aspect of issues introduced out extra space-themed sounds because of this.”
Smith’s most up-to-date studio album, Let’s Turn It Into Sound, arrived in 2022. Goddard issued his third solo album, Harmonics, earlier this yr.
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Neptunes EP:
01 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / Joe Goddard: “Neptunes”
02 Joe Goddard: “Speedy Fireplace” [ft. Laima]
03 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: “Round You”
04 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: “Round You (Joe Goddard Remix)”
05 Joe Goddard: “Speedy Fireplace (Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Remix)”
