Melbourne based songweaver Duxie Franklin has just released her hypnotic new single called ‘I Feel You’, which premiered exclusively via The AU Review.
Franklin has also announced that she will be playing a single launch show on 23 Oct at George Lane St Kilda alongside local support Punchbowl.
“This song is about unmistakable, undeniable magnetic attraction. The heart-pounding yearning and twisting of desire that you may not be able to act on, but that completely takes over every moment you’re near this other person.”
Duxie Franklin effortlessly combines elements of Pop, Indie, Alternative and Folk to create her endearing sound. Her unique and catchy melodies draw frequent comparisons to legends such as Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Björk and Gillian Welch.
The multitalented artist debuted in 2017 and has since released 8 singles and 2 EPs. Her releases have secured attention from the likes of The AU Review, Happy Mag, The Soundcheck, Scenestr, Australian Music Scene, AMNplify, The Partae, Subculture Entertainment, AAA Backstage, The Point Music News and many more.
Franklin recently teamed up with producer Patrick Ament to craft what is her most intimate single to date. New single ‘I Feel You’ is available now on all major streaming platforms.
“It’s a sensual song about the pull of attraction: a shared glance across a room, and the tension of wanting someone intensely. It’s sultry and yearning, packed with smouldering vocals and desire.”
Bruce Baker – The AU Review
Continuing to push beyond the sound established on their breakout debut EP, Toronto indie quintet Next Week’s Washing shares “Clear Eyes,” a massive, dreamy, and cinematic new single that brings alternative rock energy together with densely layered shoegaze. Taken from the band’s forthcoming sophomore EP, Spiral, set for release on November 13th, the track represents their most expansive recording yet, combining walls of textured instrumentation with upfront vocals and a growing confidence in the sound they can distinctly call their own.
“Clear Eyes” was the first song Next Week’s Washing wrote after completing their debut EP. Rather than starting over, the band approached the track as an opportunity to take the foundations they had already established and push them somewhere bigger.
“We wanted to take the sound we had begun to develop with the first six songs and push it forward,” the band explains. “We took a lot more time building layers into the recording, and the result is our biggest (sonically) sounding song yet.”
That progression can be heard throughout the track. While the instrumentation leans heavily into the band’s shoegaze influences, Next Week’s Washing deliberately pushed the vocals forward in the mix, allowing the songwriting to remain present within the song’s towering layers of guitars. The result lands somewhere between the immersive atmosphere of shoegaze and the immediacy of alternative and indie rock, bringing the different sides of the band’s identity into sharper focus.
For Next Week’s Washing, that convergence of influences is precisely what makes “Clear Eyes” significant. Rather than sounding indebted to any single reference point, the band sees the track as one of the clearest representations yet of what their own sound can become.
“It’s probably the truest blend of all our influences that we’ve ever written,” they share. “It feels like something only Next Week’s Washing could’ve written, and we’re proud of that.”
The song’s title arrived only after the music and lyrics were already complete. Fans of the television series Friday Night Lights, the band found themselves returning to Coach Taylor’s recurring mantra, “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.” The phrase unexpectedly aligned with the meaning they had already discovered within the song, giving the track its name and adding another layer to its perspective.
With “Clear Eyes,” the band takes the foundations of their debut EP and blows them outward. Massive yet melodic, dreamy yet immediate, the single captures a young band beginning to understand exactly what makes its sound distinctive and pushing that identity toward something bigger.
