Andrew Jim Gannon announces Hydrate Those Folds!, due June 12, marking his first release under his own name after work as On Man. According to the press release, the Hertfordshire-based producer now steps out from behind the moniker, singing under his own name for the first time and reshaping his electronic background into a more exposed strain of art-pop. “Golden Kayak” is the new excerpt.
On the new single, Andrew Jim Gannon said “I wrote ‘Golden Kayak’ after getting a bit fixated on a Noah Davis painting. It has these figures carrying a luminous kayak through a soaked, muddy landscape. I kept coming back to it. It feels ceremonial and mythic. From there, the lyric drifted away from the painting and into an image I couldn’t quite place: I wasn’t sure if it was something I’d remembered or imagined. Musically it pulled me towards a tougher, more propulsive sound, while still trying to keep that flooded atmosphere.”
Commenting on the video, Gannon added “The red-glove figure always seems to get obsessed with something, and in this one it’s a floating shape over a river. It’s filled with bits of footage that feel as though they should add up to something, but never quite do. I liked the feeling of him chasing something that seems meaningful in some way but stays out of reach. That sense of almost recognising something, then losing it again, became the whole logic of the film.”
Watch it below.
