Profligate shares dark, sleek new single, “A Stranger.”
On September 24, Noah Anthony, a.k.a. Profligate, will release new album Too Numb To Know via Wharf Cat. Today, Anthony shares new single “A Stranger,” a darkly sleek synth-pop jam with slithering post-punk bass, plus some dark club elements that bridge past and present. Its melody and arrangement nod to both Depeche Mode and Sade while delivering a streamlined and fun—despite the subject matter—electronic production.
Profligate’s Noah Anthony said about “A Stranger” in a statement, “‘A Stranger’ is sort of about erasing someone from your life, or being erased from people you used to be close to, for whatever reason. I was thinking about it in relation to social media and how nowadays we just block or delete a person and hope that they’ll just disappear. It’s written from the perspective of someone who’s been ‘erased’ and is resigned to walking a new landscape of familiar faces that remind them of friends they used to know. It’s a sad song. It features Kat Duma (Kaade), from Montreal, on backup vocals.”
Hear “A Stranger” below.
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