Jerkcurb returns after six years with new single, "Larchmont"

"Larchmont" is the first taster of new music from Jerkcurb since the 2019 release of his debut album, Air Con Eden.

Speaking on the track, Read offers: “Every summer, when I was I child, I would visit my family in Larchmont, a typical suburban neighbourhood in New York with picket fences and perfect lawns. I wrote Larchmont during sleepless nights over the blur of the Covid 19 pandemic. I was unsettled, a new sense of dread in the silence and disorientating abundance of time. In the day, I learnt bossanova songs to simulate calm, a hot sun somewhere far away. But by nighttime these happy chords had twisted into darker shapes that became Larchmont. The lyrics describe a dialogue between a couple, caught up in a cycle of fear and bliss. Larchmont, the place where I spent my childhood vacations, could represent a future sanctuary or just an escape to a memory of summer.”

Billy Howard Price, who directed the video for "Larchmont" said of the collaboration: “Larchmont is a feverish ode, a manic & heartfelt tribute to the Southern Gothic genre. Shot in the wilds of Gwynedd, North Wales, which doubled up for the shadowy America of Faulker’s unforgiving tableaus & traversed on screen by Robert Mitchum & Gregory Peck. Our video charts a hallucinatory path between two lonely & eerie characters as they plot a course deep into the night.”