- 2025-10-30
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MUSIC
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Lemondaze Announces New EP “Subtext”, Shares New Song “polari”
London-based post-rock band Lemondaze, consisting of Isis de Chastelain (guitar/vocals), Rosie Heard-Edwards (guitar/vocals), Finn Fox (drums) and Jonty Freeman (bass), has announced their upcoming sophomore EP “Subtext” will be released on December 5, 2025 via Venn Records.
The EP is their first project in four years since the 2021 debut EP “Celestial Bodies”.
From the EP, the band released the second single “polari” on October 29, following “o(type)” released back in August.
The song is both brutal and beautiful, with its weighty low-end and rich harmonic layers. Beneath the distortion lies a vivid sense of nostalgia, as the band draws on memories of sun-kissed euphoria and summer recklessness.
It was written by Finn Fox, Isis De Chastelain, Jonathan Freeman, and Rosie Heard-Edwards. Produced by Matt Glasbey.- The band lead singer Isis de Chastelain said of the song, “I wrote the lyrics after we played Green Man Festival in 2022; it was the most magical time in the most beautiful place with my best friends. The track itself has this nostalgic feeling to me, summer, getting drunk with your best friends, being young. That’s what the lyrics are for me, going ride or die on the craziest adventure with the people that mean the most to you. The song itself came together during a Covid-fuelled fever dream when Finn and I were quarantining together. It was 4 days of playing Lego Batman and Halo 3, making Swedish meatballs and writing 'polari' (it was originally called 'eggs box 420' - lol).”
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The new EP comprises 5 tracks, which the band recorded with producer Matt Glasbey between sessions in London and Brighton in 2024.
The band said of the EP, “This is Lemondaze at our rawest and most pure. A single brain cell shared.”
Photo by Derek Bremner - source : Apple Music
