Alt-pop band THE DRIVER ERA share their new project, ‘Summer Mixtape’, out everywhere today.
Featuring eleven brand new tracks – including the Rolling Stone-approved dance track ‘Keep Moving Forward’ (feat. Nikka Costa), the nostalgic summer single ‘Malibu‘, and the sexy new single ‘Fantasy’, ‘Summer Mixtape’ is currently available for streaming and purchase on limited edition white vinyl, cassette, and CD formats.
If the previous release ‘Girlfriend‘ is the album that was penned and produced during a time where Ross and Rocky were solely with their loved ones, ‘Summer Mixtape‘ is the record that explores the thread that ties adventure, nightlife, and intimacy together.
In ‘Summer Mixtape’, a cathartic kaleidoscope of sonics, influences, and themes flicker throughout, proving to be a listening experience that differs from the last two records.
“We always like to express ourselves in a raw, honest way, but this release goes a little bit harder,” describes Rocky. “With Summer Mixtape, these are songs that are a nod to that state you want to be in — having fun and enjoying life with the people you care about”.
While ‘Malibu’ explores the feeling of firsts, the band’s latest single ‘Fantasy’ is about what comes after — intimacy and understanding.
“This song was actually one that was in a folder of unreleased songs we were going through when we were session surfing,” says Rocky. “Ross started singing the chorus and it just clicked.”
Known for what Clash called, “intimate, high energy live show”, the band will bring their GIRLFRIEND WORLD TOUR to the UK – headlining for the first time ever – two nights at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on October 4th and 5th, before heading to Birmingham’s O2 Institute on October 7th and Newcastle’s University on October 8th. The tour will take the band to Glasgow’s O2 Academy for the only Scottish date, before touching Ireland to headline Vicar Street in Dublin on October 11th, before closing the UK leg of their worldwide tour at the Academy in Manchester. For tickets and VIP packages, please visit www.thedriverera.com.
“[Fantasy] is a song that sounds like it’s about ‘sexy time,’ but more importantly it’s about the deep nature of intimacy and learning about how it can grow,” describes Ross. “Once you’re comfortable and intimate with a certain individual, you think you know everything about them but you’re constantly learning new things about them. It’s a beautiful thing that I’ve learned about monogamy; some think of commitment as confining but I find it to be freeing. ‘Fantasy’ is a song that represents that”.
