With only a little less than a month left of summer, Talk Time have blessed us with a new beachy jam, “Desperate Weather,” as we salvage these last few weeks of warmth!
After obsessing over the Los Angeles indie-pop band’s debut single, “Year of Self,” this past June, we’ve been ready for a new single for quite some time. Set to be a part of the band’s upcoming debut EP, “Desperate Weather” was co-produced with Math Bishop (The Killers, Silversun Pickups, U2) and is quite reminiscent of indie favorites like Family of The Year and St. Lucia.
“I’ve always thought people are interconnected,” explains vocalist Edson Choi. “The more I live and learn about our world, the more I’m convinced it’s not just people–but the universe is a fabric that is all connected, entities that are part of bigger entities–life on this planet, the stars and beyond–we’re all part of the same thing (kind of like the ending to Men in Black). So that’s why when I was addicted to hate-watching cable news for a while, I almost lost my marbles. All of them. It’s not just the negativity, it was the powerful talking heads squabbled over the wrong thing (not unlike the White Walker problem in Game of Thrones). This song came out of that period, and writing it actually gave me a mantra to use when I feel bummed out by our modern maladies: ‘keep me strange and awake in this ocean of cells…we all need some help, there’ll be no one else,’ which are the bridge lyrics on this song. I especially like the last part of that because it implies taking responsibility for what you can be better about, and push forward your own evolution as a better human.”
Listen to “Desperate Weather” below:
