- 2025-10-15
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MUSIC
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Sudan Archives Premieres New Song “A BUG'S LIFE” on BBC Radio 1
Los Angeles-based violinist and singer-songwriter Sudan Archives will release her upcoming third studio album “THE BPM” this Friday (October 17th) via Stones Throw Records.
From the album, she premiered a new song “A BUG'S LIFE” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Sian Eleri.
The song is the sixth and final pre-release single, following “COME AND FIND YOU”, “MS. PAC MAN”, “MY TYPE”, “YEA YEA YEA”, and “DEAD”.
It was written by Brittney Parks, James McCall IV, and Ben Dickey, who also produced the track.
Sudan Archives told Sian Eleri about the song, “This song is just a very fun song, like when I made it. I thought that the beat sounded like A Bug's Life. I used to play it like the A Bug's Life video game. And I remember when I made the song, I was just laughing at the beat because it just started sounding so silly. So it's just so funny that it's like kind of grown into this, like one of the most powerful songs on the album.”- She continued, “I started making this song in LA, but then I remember finishing it in Detroit and finalizing it in Chicago. So we started the framework. I started the demo of it with this writer, James in LA, and then I remember taking it to Detroit, and then Eric adding, like, more drums. And then I remember Ben and I finishing it in Chicago with a quartet. They added more to what I did to enhance it to make the sound bigger. And I just never, I don't think I've ever like a song has been built in so many different places.”
She added, “I remember it sounded like A Bug's Life, because at first it was these little plucks. And then it had these like chords that kind of sounded like these video game kind of chords. It was really, really, really, really like just Boneworks kind of vibes. And I just remember thinking, oh my god, this is just, this sounds just like a video game.” -
The new album comprises 15 tracks, produced by Sudan Archives, Ben Dickey, Eric Terhune, and Damon Terrell. It is her first album in two years since the 2022 album “Natural Brown Prom Queen”.
She said of the album, “No one can take away your rhythm from you – no one can take away your self-will. All those things can be your own power if you utilize them right.”
Photo by Yanran Xiong - source : BBC Radio 1
