SPIDER releases new track, ‘daisy chain’
share new track, ‘daisy chains’
New EP, an object of desire, coming soon
Headline show, Camden Assembly, March 20th“A thrilling, refreshingly left-field new voice in pop” – The Observer, Ones To Watch
“If we ever needed a star like SPIDER, now is absolutely the time” – DIY
“SPIDER refuses to accept the status quo” – The FADER
“A cathartic anthem about accepting your head’s a mess sometimes, belted out with a massive chorus and scuzzy guitars” – The Face
“SPIDER is shaping alt-pop in her own delightfully surreal image” – NME
SPIDER has today dropped her first new music of the year, ‘daisy chains’, taken from upcoming EP an object of desire. The multi-hyphenate teased the project with the acclaimed ‘straight out the oven !’, and will play her first ever headline show at London’s Camden Assembly on March 20th following dates with the likes of Blackpink, Lynks and Jessica Winter.
“daisy chains” is the epitome of “don’t take my kindness for weakness,” comments SPIDER. “I wrote it about a really shitty experience where I continued being super kind to someone who invaded my personal space and made me feel really uncomfortable. I just didn’t think I was entitled to feeling weird about it and I didn’t feel like I could stand up for myself either. The lyrics are violent, but the invasion of someone’s space – in any type of way – is violent. Writing this song allowed me to reclaim that moment and properly feel the anger I had towards them without forcing myself to take the high road and “be above it”.
Exploring the “Unholy Trinity of Young Adulthood”, ‘daisy chains’ is SPIDER’s latest disarming introduction to her new EP, an object of desire. As lyrically direct as it is musically expansive, the EP examines themes of sex and objectification – that grey-space between where one starts and the other ends, set against a visual world that’s part Catholic Guilt, part Valley Girl cheerleader. In discussing how our experiences of emotional intimacy are formed and – on ‘daisy chains’, risk being violated – SPIDER seeks the power to heal, grow, and (as ‘straight out the oven !’ memorably puts it) tell everyone to go fuck themselves!
Disruptive, dynamic and distinct, SPIDER is a young talent learning to stand out for all that she is. Her own unorthodox origin-story begins in the Dublin suburb of Tallaght, where she grew up in a strict Nigerian-Catholic household in which gig-going was banned. SPIDER instead sought community online, running pop band stan accounts and witnessing the connective possibilities of creating work in her own voice. She took her eight-legged alias from the lessons of African spirituality and folklore – here the spider is the totemic symbol of strong feminine energy, and embodied SPIDER’s increasingly-timely belief that only you can weave your future. She moved to London aged 18, penning her COA project – which featured viral astrology banger ‘Water Sign’ – as her own coming-of-age was again suspended (this time, by the pandemic). Its visceral, DIY followup, HELL OR HIGH WATER, embraced both a heavier sound and a more unapologetic attitude. A series of unfiltered conversations with the self, the EP called for honesty over consequence in childhood, relationships or Art: a spirit vividly rendered in ‘AMERICA’s NEXT TOP MODEL’, SPIDER’s rousing call for black representation across alternative music and prominent online platforms.
With work full of wit, empathy and occasional rage, watch out for more from SPIDER to follow soon.
20.03.24 || London || Camden Assembly
