Don’t go finalizing those Best of 2023 lists just yet — Bugeye are here with a late entry to the party. The London dance-punk band raise a glass to the excitement of youth with “Dancing out in the Dark,” an infectious fuzzed-out power-pop bop that feels like it’s been a part of our lives this entire time, and it wouldn’t sound out of place on a ’90s-themed mixtape alongside Kenickie and Elastica.
Released this past Friday (November 24) and with a video ready to roll this Friday (December 1), “Dancing out in the Dark” finds the queer trio — singer and guitarist Angela Martin, bassist Paula Snow and drummer Lisa Lux — channeling the nostalgia of our teen years, when sneaking out at night to meet up with friends led to endless excitement and adventures. It’s a total fucking jam.
“Myself, Lisa and Paula wrote this song together at Storm studios in North London,” says Martin. “The song came together quite quickly with bouncing ideas of each other to construct each section of the song – we played around with stripping the song back to its bare bones and building each section from there. We then took the song to producer Paul Tipler to record over a couple of days.”
Add it to your year-end lists at once.