News: Fan Girl reveal new single “eleveneleven” from forthcoming EP real or staged

“eleveneleven” continues the innovative streak of real or staged, following the sinister twists of “the last one” and the addictive energy of “little pig”. The grand, dark and dancy tune explores the experience of living in your memories and the ill-defined lines between such recollections and reality. Broken drum machines tick along, and chaotic trumpets scream while vocals float eerily across a song that builds and builds, proving that there is no such thing as repetition, only persistence.

Fan Girl on “eleveneleven”:
“‘eleveneleven’ has been with us for a minute. Various styles, multiple iterations. Grand yet dark, long yet immediate. Two numbers, twice. We wanted it to be a little bit 60s horror film, a little bit 2024 end of the world and a little bit of everything in between. It is all a little wonky, broken and ominous, and not quite how you remember it.

We tracked it over a couple weeks, letting the experiments get the best of us. You can thank this momentary suspension of deadlines for the mechanically broken glitches, meandering haunted piano and god awful trumpet playing. You are welcome. Add in some ghostly backing vocals made possible by Merpire & World’s Best Neighbours and some bouncy clav via the speedy hands of Christy Wositzky-Jones. Once we had finished tracking the sprawling mess, we shipped it off to Andy Savours (Sorry, My Bloody Valentine, Black Country New Road) in London, who made sense of the chaos with his mixing prowess, before being delivered to Felix Davis (Porridge Radio, Folly Group, Do Nothing) for his trademark™ mastering genius. It’s yours now.”

“eleveneleven” drops alongside a nightmare inducing visual accompaniment. Filmed and directed by Luke Thomas, the dystopic VR fever dream sees a glitch in the matrix cause a group of bystanders to get caught up in a confusing alternate universe, where the lines of reality are blurred and all sense is lost – but things take a turn as the VR world starts to crumble, and the hackers lose control. Welcome to the simulation – an alternate hellscape where hackers rule the world, and Fan Girl’s music is catchy…

These dates follow the band’s recently wrapped run of Australian dates, which saw them light up venues in Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney with their exhilarating live performance. All tour details can be found at fangirl.com.au.