No Windows share new single “Easter Island”
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The Great Traitor out 9th May via Fat Possum Records
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“astonishing” – Stereogum
“No Windows could be a generational talent.” – The Line Of Best Fit
“As ever, brilliant, mature songwriting from a duo who simply don’t miss.” – So Young
“epic” – The FADER
“loaded with nostalgia while waltzing into the future.” – NME
“inquisitive alt-pop with a dogged DIY aesthetic” – CLASH
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Today, Edinburgh duo No Windows share a poignant new single titled “Easter Island”. The track follows the recent announcement of their much-anticipated new EP The Great Traitor. The new release follows their critically acclaimed 2024 EP Point Nemo, a packed out run of EU / UK tour dates – including being part of The Great Escape’s ‘First Fifty’ and supporting full Slow Pulp tour. Alongside the new single, the band have also shared details of a new run of live dates for 2025.
Multi-instrumentalist Morgan Morris and lyricist Verity Slangen’s evocative blend of classic pop & folk has earned them widespread support from radio and press, as well as the coveted Sound of Young Scotland Award at the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Awards in 2023. In 2024, they signed to Fat Possum records at 18 and 19-years-old respectively, with just one self-released EP (Fishboy) to their name.
With every release to date, No Windows have continued to refine their atmospheric indie pop blend, combining warm Duster-style soundscapes with lo-fi experimentalism and nods to borderless indie-folk. The Great Traitor EP expands the duo’s sonic territory even further, leaving the more familiar indie traits behind in favour of lush, psychedelic arrangements that take their cues from 70s chamber pop (George Harrison, Leonard Cohen) and film score composer Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Produced with Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Sorry, Yard Act), the recording process took them out of Morgan’s DIY bedroom set-up and into a studio, where they had access to a breadth of instruments that allowed for more exploration across the EPs six tracks.
The new single “Easter Island” marks the first track the band have written to be sung as a duet from start to finish, and is emblematic of how much Morgan and Verity’s creative relationship has grown over the past years. The emotive and intricate acoustic EP closer sees mellifluous fingerpicking weave around the duos simultaneous vocal lines, with subtle piano, Vibraphone, and tape loop ambience floating in and out of the track.
Speaking on the track, Morgan says, “Easter Island may be the most collaborative song we’ve written, there was almost no separation between both of our roles in that moment. Usually, our instinct after finishing on a song’s spine is to think about arrangement, instrumentation, and production. The works. However, after finishing up Easter Island, we felt perfectly content with where it was. The song remains almost the same as when we played it in my room for the first time.”
“It was written at the end of the relationship that inspired so much of this EP, I have written so many breakup songs and this one shows my maturity in being able to take a gentler and more nuanced approach on the situation,” Verity continues. “As Morgan said, I cannot separate our roles in this song, I felt very unrooted while writing it, and the collaborative element signifies to me the most constant thing in my life, music and me and Morgan’s relationship.”
As with the recent single “Return”, the new track is also accompanied by a stunning new visual directed by CLUMP Collective. The warm and nostalgic video sees the duo sat around a fire, with an intense focus on the fire and the embers rising up in front of them.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “EASTER ISLAND” HERE
STREAM HERE
Written after the release of Point Nemo, The Great Traitor marks a transitional period for No Windows, both as a band and as individuals. The songs came together while Morgan was in the process of deciding to drop out of university, while Verity had just started university and was adjusting to life there. For both of them, 2024 specifically “felt like the transition from adolescence to adulthood.” The EP reflects that in its blooming instrumentals and its emotional nuance. “When I wrote [the lyrics for] Point Nemo I was very much a teenager and very hormonal still. I think this EP is coming out of that a little bit,” Verity offers. “For me, it’s a mediation between being a younger person to being someone in my 20s who’s figuring things out a bit more.”
The result is a series of heartfelt tracks that capture transient feelings at their most acute, while at the same time arranging them within the cinematic landscape of memory; an immortalisation of significant life events that have, for No Windows, already come and gone. “Our music has always felt quite nostalgic to me,” says Verity. “I think The Great Traitor sounds like a snapshot in time. A picture, almost, of how we were in that moment.”
9th May – Edinburgh – Assai (EP release day instore)
22nd May – London – Footsteps Festival – w/ The Vaselines
24th May – Bristol – Dot To Dot Festival
25th May – Nottingham – Dot To Dot Festival
14th June – Edinburgh – Hidden Door Festival
21st June – London – Rough Trade East (headline)
26th September – Glasgow – The Rum Shack (headline)
The Great Traitor is out 9th May via Fat Possum Records – Pre-save / order HERE
