London-based shoegaze outfit sadplanet share the elegant, floating new single ‘please’, the second track to be lifted from their forthcoming debut EP ‘slowing down’, arriving September 10th.
Formed in late 2023, sadplanet have quickly established themselves as one of the capital’s most exciting new alternative bands. Their latest single, ‘please’, demonstrates exactly why. Building a sonic landscape of reverb-drenched guitars, melancholic vocal melodies, and driving percussion that feels equally indebted to Slowdive and Cocteau Twins, the single bursts with a rich sense of musical understanding.
Comprised of Kyra Ho (vocals), Nick Rainey (guitar), Aiden Knowles (guitar), Jeff Baker (drums), and Dan Lawrence (bass), the band craft a lush and immersive texture throughout the track, moving effortlessly between atmospheric haze and murky intensity while remaining emotionally resonant and melodically rich.
‘please’ swells and recedes through its verses and choruses before finally erupting into a towering wall of distortion and crashing cymbals – a cathartic release of the tension built across the song. The result feels like a seismic collision between fragile tenderness and emotional collapse.
“‘please’ is about the kind of friendship that feels perfect, until it isn’t,” the band explain. “It’s that slow realisation that all the red flags were there from the start, but you chose to ignore them because of how good it felt in the moment. There’s a real high in finding someone who just gets you, and the song lives in that rise and fall, ‘so far it’s up, so far to fall.’ It’s about the comedown from that intensity, and the mess that’s left when it all unravels.”
The upcoming EP ‘slowing down’ was co-engineered by Stanley Gravett, known for his work with Idles, The Horrors, and High Vis, alongside Sergio Maschetzko (Black Country, New Road). Mixing and mastering duties were handled by Bob Cooper.
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