RVG RELEASE NEW TRACK ‘MIDNIGHT SUN’ + NEW ALBUM BRAIN WORMS – OUT FRI JUNE 2

Today, revered Melbourne band RVG present their poignant new single ‘Midnight Sun’, lifted from their highly anticipated third studio album, Brain Worms – out Friday June 2. ‘Midnight Sun’ comes with a single-take video shot in Melbourne’s Templestowe.

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A hurtling rock song, ‘Midnight Sun’ deals in matters of disbelief, and what it feels like to live in a culture that often prefers to argue the semantics than save the world from burning. Aptly furious and defiant, frontwoman Romy Vager cuts through the chaos singing ‘my city is in ashes / but I’m still burning bright / Hangin’ here like a lantern / in case you change your mind’.

Of the song Romy says “I wrote this around the time of the Australian bushfires in 2019 when it felt like everything precious about this country was being destroyed by climate change. There were all these talking heads trying to play down how much of a disaster it was, instead focusing on how much they hate immigrants or queer people. I thought - the world is literally on fucking fire and this is what you choose to use your platform on? The song is contrasting these two things, and how sick we are ideologically that we can’t identify what real problems are.”

This urgency and passion are heard on Vager’s heaving vibrato and vivid lyricism, capturing both her pervasive fury, yet undeniable yearning for empathy and inclusivity. ‘I’ll do my best to be kind,’ she accentuates over the band’s signature post-punk symphony.

The new offering follows February’s album lead single ‘Nothing Really Changes’, which featured across The Guardian AU, NME AU, Tone Deaf, Music Feeds, plus received a slew of local radio adds, DSP playlist covers and debuted at #3 on Top 10 Singles Chart at specialty radio in the U.S. Last month’s follow up ‘Squid’ was one of Rolling Stone’s ‘Songs You Need To Know’ and praised by Brooklyn Vegan, Culture Fiend, Femmusic and Glamglare, with Austin Town Hall calling the track a “a powerful display that delivers a wallop to the listener’s ears”.

After a momentous first five years — finding critical acclaim for debut A Quality of Mercy (2017), landing on countless end-of-year Best Of lists, and playing alongside some of the world’s biggest acts in Pixies, Kurt Vile, Pete Doherty, Sleaford Mods, Camp Cope, Shame, and more — RVG released second album Feral (2020) as the world was locking down. Feral was called “masterfully executed” by The Big Issue, “the record of a lifetime” by Rolling Stone Australia and given four-and-a-half stars by the Sydney Morning Herald. But in new album Brain Worms, this is the most confident the band has ever felt in RVG. They’ve moved past their influences, pushed themselves, and tried new things. And they have made a record they can, by all accounts, call their best.

RVG recently returned from SXSW (Austin) and are currently touring the UK with Billy Nomates, which will be followed by a short headline tour in Europe across May. The band will then return home to play Rising Festival, Dark Mofo and Splendour in the Grass.

If you do one thing today, let it be listening to ‘Midnight Sun’.

Pre-order Brain Worms now HERE.