NYC musician Lou Tides has announced her newest EP, Infinite Loop, out on May 20th. “Sense of Touching,” the first single on the album, was released earlier on April 1st.
Bushwick local and formerly known as Nancy Feast, Lou Tides has made a name for herself throughout her musical career. As a former member of the bands Here We Go Magic and TEEN, Tides has chosen to go solo for her newest project. While she has collaborators, namely drummer Sarah Galdes, the laminated layers of synthesizers and vocals are all her own. Tides has developed multimedia performances incorporating movement, costume, film, and sound artistry by drummer Sarah Galdes.
I think of these songs as a map. A sequence in time. And the sequence of the songs follows that map, that loop.
Lou Tides
“Movement is not an art form in which I have any official practice, so there’s a lot of freedom in the lack of knowledge,” she says of her somatic performance elements.
Performing and producing by herself for the first time was only natural for an EP this personal and emotional. Tides made these songs while reckoning with the profound ways she’d been affected by her sexual trauma.
Emotionally this music would not fit into anything strictly shaped or precise, I wanted to embrace the moods of the emotions and how I felt they would naturally flow. Time then felt different, and lush arrangements with stretchy synthesizers felt appropriate. I wanted the music to emulate the natural peaks and valleys of our lives and relationships
Lou Tides
Tides talks to BrooklynVegan about the track and video, “Sense of Touching was shot pre-pandemic in January of 2020. I approached Suzi Murray Sadler (director and cinematographer) about capturing the live performance that Sarah Galdes and I had been developing for about a year. The song and video was almost lost in the noise of the pandemic – for me personally, it felt difficult to return to as it was written to process past sexual events.”
“But, about two years into the pandemic, I started feeling like I was ready to revisit the song, as it allowed for some time to reflect on the purpose of the music. Admitting to myself that shame was partially responsible for my fear to release the music, I didn’t wish to let the people who had harmed me hold that level of power. So this video, made with people I love and trust, feels both joyful and cathartic in its defiance.”
Infinite Loop will be available on Bandcamp, Tidal, and Apple Music on May 20th.
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