Small Black—the Brooklyn-based chillwave group of Josh Kolenik, Juan Pieczanski, Ryan Heyner, and Jeff Curtin—have announced their first new album since 2015. The record, titled
Cheap Dreams, comes out on April 9 via 100% Electronica. The second single from the album is “Duplex,” which comes with a music video directed by Ryan Draybuck. Watch below.
“We finished writing & recording ‘Duplex’ way before the world shut down last March,” lead singer Josh Kolenik said in a press release, “but the lyrics seemed oddly prophetic to me as we were doing the final mix. ‘Walking in the house alone/Pray on the ottoman/Amen for one’ I was originally thinking about the absurdity of feeling alone amid the 9 million of us in NYC and yet suddenly, we were all isolated without much of a choice in the matter. In those weeks spent listening to the quiet out our Brooklyn windows, only broken by the occasional siren, unsure where the city or the world was headed, the song took on a new meaning.”