Back in May, electronic pop group St. Nothing were playing a mid-week show at the Middle East for about a hundred people, many of which were pressed tightly up against the Cambridge club’s upstairs stage, hanging on every hook, word, and beat.
Now, after a few other summer gigs that included a performance at Freezepop’s 15th anniversary party at the Sinclair, the homegrown trio is getting ready to play their biggest show to date: Saturday afternoon at Boston Calling Music Festival, in front of several thousand people. Through still relatively new on the scene, St. Nothing earned a slot playing the City Hall Plaza festival through SonicBids, and to get us all worked up properly, have premiered their new demo track, “Deals,” through Vanyaland.
St. Nothing frontman and songwriter Marco Lawrence tells us that “Deals” touches on “experiences with toxic relationships, whether platonic or otherwise.”
Musically, the song conveys more of the dark, yearning bedroom-pop tone first heard on the Begin EP, which Lawrence first wrote and produced early last year under the Hall of Mirrors moniker. “Deals” the first song recorded together by all of the St. Nothing members, which include cellist Jenna Calabro, guitarist Sophia Carreras, and violist Meredith Nero.
“I think it has a dancier feel than some of the stuff on Begin, but it’s equally string-heavy,” Lawrence tells Vanyaland. “Other new stuff is a mix between this feel and the older songs.
Those tracks will be on display this Saturday, when St. Nothing hit the Boston Calling stage before Lorde, Childish Gambino, Sky Ferreira, the Hold Steady, and fellow Boston act CliffLight.
After this weekend’s festival, St. Nothing will then play electronic pop night of mini-fest Boston En Masse at Church on September 20, alongside Color Channel, Goldbloc, AVOXBLUE, Pale Hands and others.
Listen to “Deals” below, and check out the song’s artwork and full Boston Calling schedule down below…
“Deals” artwork…
