Remi Wolf premieres โMichael,โ a new track from the deluxe edition of โJuno.โ The Los Angeles artist will perform one of two headline gigs in the UK next month at Londonโs newly renovated KOKO.
Remi Wolf has released a brand new song called โMichael,โ as well as information about a new deluxe edition album.
The song is the first single off Wolfโs upcoming 2021 debut album, โJuno,โ which will be released on June 3 via Virgin EMI.
Three new songs and a pair of repurposed tracks from โJunoโ will be included on the upcoming deluxe edition of โMichael.โ
โI wrote โMichaelโ with my buddies Aaron Maine (known as the artist Porches) and Jack DeMeo,โ Wolf stated of the new song. It was my and Aaronโs first time working together, and weโd both recently returned from a wild vacation to Miami, so we brought that enthusiasm into the session. We created three songs that day, but โMichaelโ stood out.
โI was just free-styling and letting words tumble out when I was writing the song.โ After a few months, the message has finally dawned on me. The song depicts a frantic and infatuated lady who loves the rush of Michaelโs attention and is willing to go to any length to obtain it. I wanted the video to convey the feeling of this mom frantically searching the city for Michael. We shot run-and-gun style in Argentina while I was on tour there; it was a bit of a frenzy, but it added to the videoโs mania.โ
Below is Remi Wolfโs video for โMichael.โ
NME described โJunoโ as โmaximalist pop music filled with moreish hooks, gloopy grooves, and ludicrous ad libsโ when it was released last year. While the album borrows sonically from Wolfโs earlier EPs and her admiration for Beckโs 1999 album โMidnite Vultures,โ โJunoโ sees her go deeper thematically โ from mania and exhaustion to breakups.โ
Wolf will perform two headline shows in the UK next month, starting on June 14 at Londonโs recently reopened KOKO and ending two days later at Manchester Academy.
โThroughout, Wolfโs music is tough to classify,โ NME noted of her performance at the capitalโs MOTH Club last November. The Californian musician dabbles in punk, pop, indie, funk, and dance โ frequently at the same time โ during the course of a 17-song show tonight. She is equally at ease rapping about fast food orgies (โQuiet On Setโ) as she is belting out love lyrics (โWoo!โ).
โShe almost spits during โSexy Villain,โ but thereโs no time to back up and analyze whatโs going on.โ Wolf makes party music, and every moment is reason for celebration from the time she takes the stage.โ