![]() ![]() Recorded over many sleepless nights and amphetamine-fueled mornings in the project’s isolated Brooklyn bunker home studios, ‘Interiors’ goes deeper into the band’s minimal is maximal aesthetic, with nods to 70s/80s punk and nightclub music ala Joy Division, Iggy Pop’s The Idiot, Depeche Mode, and New Order. “I like writing songs you can dance or zone out to”, Artaud says: “That duality of individual listening and music played in a crowd has always attracted me. Ethereal metallic synths and blistering electronics are driven by disco-on-downers dance beats lashed with gutter-rock guitar riffs and icy detached vocals with evocatively concise and lacerating lyrics. It’s Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen’s darkest and most visionary work yet. The 8 songs on ‘Interiors’ synthesise all The Vacant Lots’ past work while pushing forward into the future. I like how all the songs can interrelate with one another, and it gives this song and the album another layer of intimacy, depth and closeness.” ![]() On this album, I wanted to dig deeper than I had done before and really carve out the pain”, Jared Artaud says of the new single: “In Damaged Goods lines from other songs on the record are referenced and contrasted. If you’re saying you need an exit strategy and one lifetime is enough, that’s a whole other zone you’re going to. “Damaged Goods is about integrating conflicting internal feelings. Watch the video, directed by Alexander Schipper, here: Arriving off the back of recent single ‘Amnesia’, it’s a piece of minimalist post-punk/synth-pop lifted from the band’s fifth studio album ‘Interiors’, out October 13th on Fuzz Club. ![]() Following a premiere on Iggy Pop’s BBC 6 Music show, Brooklyn-based duo The Vacant Lots are officially sharing their new single ‘Damaged Goods’ today. ![]()
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