World’s First Cinema
Release Hypnotic Single
“Paranoid”
via Fearless Records
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Today, World’s First Cinema released their first single of 2025, “Paranoid,” via Fearless Records. It’s available to stream now, along with a lyric visualizer.
The Los Angeles-based duo – John Sinclair and Fil Thorpe – continue to push cinematic boundaries with their new track through storytelling as listeners embark on a lyrical and hypnotic journey that builds momentum throughout. It all comes together at the climactic bridge that will turn heads and have you looking over your shoulder.
This new single comes just after the release of two other tracks to close out 2024 – the striking song “The Underneath” and the anthemic baroque pop song “Freak Show.”
Written and produced entirely by John and Fil, “Paranoid” is all about questioning your own sanity. Throughout the track, you can visualize shadows moving on their own, hear voices that aren’t really there, and feel strange eyes on the back of your head.
The group shared their sentiments on the track: “It was just fun to write, honestly. Reminds us so much of a more modern “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell. It’s spooky and riffy and full of visual hooks.”
Following the release of 2023’s Palm Reader, World’s First Cinema is beginning to define its new era of music with these latest singles. Inspired by their love of movies and film scores, they are historically known to sweep listeners into another world as they expand their cinematic tapestry. Their deluxe album Palm Reader Silver Screen Edition was accompanied by unique scores for each of the tracks on the original EP.
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About World’s First Cinema
When you watch a movie in a crowded theater, you give your undivided attention to the experience itself. Your senses lock into the action on the screen and the sound from the speakers, and you’re completely immersed. World’s First Cinema replicate the moviegoing experience in their music. The Los Angeles-based duo—John Sinclair and Fil Thorpe—project a myriad of intimate emotions across widescreen soundscapes underpinned by scenes of alternative, indie, pop, and electronic. After amassing over 20 million streams and counting and earning widespread acclaim from WONDERLAND, EUPHORIA, Earmilk, The Line of Best Fit, and many more.
“For me, our name elicits a visual,” states Fil. “Imagine a bunch of people sit down in a room. They don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re pointed towards a screen. A film plays, and everyone’s mind is fucking blown. That’s the feeling we want to give. We want hearing our music to be similar to the sensation of going to a movie for the first time ever.”
“We really tried to capture the sensation of sitting in a theater, hearing the opening credits rumble on that bass, and viewing the story in a song,” agrees John.
The pair’s origin story is like something out of a classic flick…
A mutual friend invited John and Fil to a game night, and they naturally started chatting. A few weeks later, they met up for a session, cooking up their 2020 debut single “Can’t Feel Anything.” It eventually generated 2.2 million Spotify streams followed by “Red Run Cold” with 7.5 million Spotify streams. Both songs adorned their debut Rituals EP in 2021. They inspired tastemaker praise with “Supernatural.” Of the latter, The Line of Best Fit urged, “think Panic! at the Disco meets Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ – it’s fun, funky and spooky,” and WONDERLAND. attested, “the L.A.-based duo are redefining pop one theatrical rock melody at a time.” Carrying this momentum into 2022, “Young Beast” generated 1.7 million Spotify streams, and they teamed up with Punctual for the fan favorite “Castles.”
In the end, World’s First Cinema presents an escape worthy of the big screen, and you’ll never want the credits to roll.
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