Small Black—the Brooklyn-based chillwave group of Josh Kolenik, Juan Pieczanski, Ryan Heyner, and Jeff Curtin—have announced their first new album since 2015. The record, titled Cheap Dreams, comes out on April 9 via 100% Electronica. The second single from the album is “Duplex,” which comes with a music video directed by Ryan Draybuck. Watch below.
“We finished writing & recording ‘Duplex’ way before the world shut down last March,” lead singer Josh Kolenik said in a press release, “but the lyrics seemed oddly prophetic to me as we were doing the final mix. ‘Walking in the house alone/Pray on the ottoman/Amen for one’ I was originally thinking about the absurdity of feeling alone amid the 9 million of us in NYC and yet suddenly, we were all isolated without much of a choice in the matter. In those weeks spent listening to the quiet out our Brooklyn windows, only broken by the occasional siren, unsure where the city or the world was headed, the song took on a new meaning.”
Cheap Dreams, which includes 2020’s comeback single “Tampa,” is Small Black’s follow-up to Best Blues. Read the feature “How Chillwave’s Brief Moment in the Sun Cast a Long Shadow Over the 2010s.”
Cheap Dreams:
01 Tampa
02 Duplex
03 Postcard
04 Waterworks
05 Driftwood Fire
06 The Bridge
07 Service Merchandise
08 Cheap Dreams
09 Nobody Loves You
10 Dunes
11 Song to Ruin
