Lenka returns with the infectious delicious pop jam ‘Silhouette’+ Announce US, China and Australian tour dates
“Lenka’s gentle tone wraps snugly around folk electronic minimalism and flirts with far grander, sweeping pop… Blue skied optimism, fragments of world beat fun, all bouncy and upbeat, glossy and positive.” – Rolling Stone, Australia.
Australian singer/songwriter Lenka has been busy behind the scenes launching the new contemporary art festival OpenField in the NSW town of Berry, as the program director and co-chair, writing, recording and releasing new music for her loyal local and international audiences with a successful run of performances in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Hong Kong back in April and May this year.
Following her single ‘One Moment‘, her first new music since 2020, featuring her captivating vocals alongside the beautiful voices of the Berry Public School choir, Lenka returns with her infectious sugary indie pop and a soulful 80s synth-inspired backdrop for ‘Silhouette‘, set for release on Friday 25 August viaher own label Skipalong Records. For many, Lenka’s music is their therapy, and this year she will return to New York, LA, and China, and play intimate shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney where they can bask in her whimsical optimistic lens.
Whether it is through her time with Decoder Ring or her career as a solo artist, touring the world, her songwriting is the lock and key to unpacking her own feelings, ‘Silhouette’ further encompasses Lenka’s openness to share, “This song is my delicious 1980’s pop jam about being worn down by life to the point where you feel like you’re disappearing and becoming numb. Almost a nihilistic feeling, but in a joyful way! “It’s fun to get creative with your more negative emotions and wear them like a costume, turn them into armour,” Lenka explains.
Written and recorded alongside engineer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Schuberth (Josh Pyke, Sara Storer, Ben Folds) and Dave Jenkins Jr on production in Eora (Sydney) and the soaring ridges and wilderness of Colomatta (Blue Mountains), ‘Silhouette‘ is a wonderland of nostalgia, accompanied by a visual steeped in a deciding retro aesthetic paying homage to styles across the 80s and 90s. Directed by Adam Jordan and filmed at Teel Studios in New South Wales, the video combines inspiration from icons such as Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox, Kylie Minogue, and more, with TV advertisement portrayals of women as femme fatale glamazons indulging in their sensuality from Lenka‘s childhood.
“This was such a fun video to shoot. The goal was to evoke the feel of 80s glamour, the nostalgia, but without the cheese. Lenka absolutely smashed it with the clothing options, my favourite shots became the black sparkly top with the backlight, the perfect mix of the glamour and nostalgia vibe we were going for.”- Adam Jordan
Known for her songs ‘The Show’, ‘Trouble Is A Friend’ and ‘Everything At Once’, Lenka‘s music has been featured in movies such as ‘Moneyball‘, ‘Easy A‘, and ‘Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging‘, TV shows including ‘Ugly Betty‘, ‘Grey’s Anatomy‘, and commercials for Microsoft, Coca Cola, and more, and collaborating with the likes of Sally Seltmann and founding member of The Avalanches Darren Seltmann. Capturing the hearts of her worldwide fanbase she has toured across Asia, Europe, and the US, including Strawberry Music Festival, Zhoushan Music Festival, Kunming Festival, Daydream Festival and Qingdao Phoenix Music Festival.
This August Lenka will bring her positive pop for more dates across China in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Shanghai before heading back to the States in October shows at Resident in LA and New York’s City Winery and then back to Australia for her homecoming at The Gasometer in Melbourne, Valley Loft in Brisbane and the Great Club in Sydney.
‘Silhouette’ out Friday 25 August via Skipalong Records
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China Tour Dates
Tuesday 29 August
Fulang Live House, Beijing
Wednesday 30 August
MaoLiveHouse, Guangzhou
Friday 1 September
Chengdu SuperSite, Chengdu
Saturday 2 September
The Bund31, Shanghai
Sunday 3 September
We Space Live House, Shenzhen
US Tour Dates
Sunday 1 October
City Winery, New York
Sunday 8 October
Resident, Los Angeles
Australian Tour Dates
Friday 17 November
The Gaso, Melbourne
Friday 24 November
Valley Loft, Fortitude Valley Brisbane
Saturday 25 November
Great Club, Sydney
All tickets are on sale now via lenkamusic.com/shows
‘Silhouette’ Video Credits:
Directed by Adam Jordan, filmed at Teel Studios in Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Produced by Josh Schuberth and Dave Jenkins Jnr
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‘Silhouette’ Lyrics
I feel nothing real
Nothing comes to mind
I feel nothing real
Maybe you could take a dive
Deep like the river of dark night stars
Shallow as a shadow of flame
I ‘aint nothin but a silhouette
A paper thin picture with a vignette
Smoke me up baby like your cigarette
I’m fading as fast as the sunset
Nothing can hurt like it did before
Nothing can touch me’ cause I
‘Aint nothin but a silhouette, silhouette,
Nothin but a silhouette, silhouette
I knew I was losing it for real
bursting at the seams
I knew I had to break the seal
living someone else’s dream
Not deep like a river of dark night stars
I’m shallow as a shadow of flame
I ‘aint nothin but a silhouette
A paper thin picture with a vignette
Smoke me up baby like your cigarette
I’m fading as fast as the sunset
Nothing can hurt like it did before
Nothing can touch me’ cause I
‘Aint nothin but a silhouette, silhouette,
Nothin but a silhouette, silhouette
How can you ask why?
When i’m so clearly visible to the
naked eye, I am a spirit
I ‘aint nothin but a silhouette
A paper thin picture with a vignette
Smoke me up baby like your cigarette
I’m fading as fast as the sunset
Nothing can hurt like it did before
Nothing can touch me’ cause I
‘Aint nothin but a silhouette, silhouette,
Nothin but a silhouette, silhouette
