Edinburgh duo No Windows announce forthcoming EP, The Great Traitor

The new single is written from the perspective of Verity Slangen at 16-years-old – understanding her autism, always feeling awkward and out of place at school. “It feels quite angry,” she says of the track. “The way I sing it live, there's a lot of emotion behind it. If I had actually written it [back then], it probably would have been a much sadder, mellower song.”

The forthcoming release follows their 2024 EP Point Nemo. Produced with Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Sorry, Yard Act), the recording process took them out of Morgan’s DIY bedroom set-up and into a studio, where they had access to a breadth of instruments that allowed for more exploration across the EPs six tracks.

The Great Traitor marks a transitional period for No Windows, both as a band and as individuals. The songs came together while Morgan was in the process of deciding to drop out of university, while Verity had just started university and was adjusting to life there.

For both of them, 2024 specifically “felt like the transition from adolescence to adulthood.” The EP reflects that in its blooming instrumentals and its emotional nuance. “When I wrote [the lyrics for] Point Nemo I was very much a teenager and very hormonal still. I think this EP is coming out of that a little bit,” Verity offers. “For me, it’s a mediation between being a younger person to being someone in my 20s who’s figuring things out a bit more.”