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Australian electronic producer Golden Features shares his latest single ‘Flesh’, out now via Foreign Family Collective / Warner Music Australia. The single arrives with the announcement of his forthcoming sophomore album Sisyphus, out July 7th.
Continuing to draw listeners with his avant-garde genre-bending style, Golden Features’ latest single ‘Flesh’ carries the experimental, off-kilter tones that have laid the groundwork for Sisyphus. A dramatic and daring cut that captures the industrial essence and rave aesthetic inspired by his time clubbing in Berlin, ‘Flesh’ ruptures with hypnotic melodies and thumping basslines. Serving as the fourth track off Sisyphus, ‘Flesh’ is the culmination of Golden Features inherently rebellious nature as an electronic music maverick.
Regarding the track, Golden Features said, “‘Flesh’ was one of the earlier demo’s from the album’s writing process. It was a direct response to my time in Berlin and a song that encapsulated everything I fell in love with on my journeys. I wrote it trying to express feelings of being under the weight of an 8 hour session in the rave. Overstimulated, anxious and completely terrified of facing the real world outside. Finally gathering the courage to call it a night experiencing the surreal shift that is walking out of a windowless dungeon into a beautiful sunrise.”
Along with ‘Flesh’, Golden Features has shared the announcement of his forthcoming album Sisyphus, due out July 7. A reaction to the mental struggles and creative anguish he felt in the years following his 2018 debut SECT, Golden Features’ sophomore offering details the path to his musical renaissance. Exploring the philosophy behind the myth of Greek figure Sisyphus, Golden Features’ new album centers around this allegory for the repetitive tendencies of the human condition.
Describing the album, Golden Features said, “Sisyphus is a record born out of a need for change. After years of touring the same music, I found myself in a place where I was jaded and had lost the excitement that propelled me into creating music in the first place. I think this is natural when you exist in a space for any extended period of time.”
Sisyphus was inspired by the pre-pandemic nights Golden Features spent in sweaty, intimate Berlin clubs reconnecting with underground electronic music. Setting the tone with three innovative singles ‘Touch’, ‘Vigil’, and ‘Endit’, the latter of which was recently featured on the official F1 23 soundtrack, Sisyphus tests the boundaries of Golden Features’ imaginative and dynamic sound.
Golden Features adds, “I made the decision to get back to what got me into electronic music in the first place. I flew to Berlin and was raving 4 nights a week, only stopping once COVID hit and we had to fly home. Those nights out were pure euphoria. Lining up for hours at clubs I didn’t know if I’d be let in, to see DJ’s I didn’t know, playing music I’d never heard. Dancing with strangers we met in the club. No phones, no photos. 5am sessions back at the apartment trying to find the music the DJ had played. I was a fan again and came home with broader horizons, completely re-energized.”