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Superduo Always You share “Shadow Play” single ahead of new LP
Members of Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing, and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have released a new single titled "Shadow Play". Their Always You project will release a new album, Against The World, this Friday.
The Los Angeles-based twin duo of Christoph and Anton Hochheim – also members of a dozen other bands – have shared the track with an accompanying music video. They said "'Shadow Play is about living for an imagined audience... Relationships are a type of performance, with specific roles that get cast and stories that get etched out and retold with time.'"
It's the final preview of Against The World, their new album, the follow up to 2021's Bloom Off the Rose. It was produced by Jack Tatum (Wild Nothing) and is the pair’s first release for Hit The North Records. It also features a guest vocal from China Crisis singer Gary Daly.
Always You were formerly known as Ablebody, and have worked across lo-fi laptop pop, synth pop, and lounge ballads. On Against The World, they move into heavier territory, with Tatum guiding production and mixing.
Against The World is released on 13 November 2026 via Hit The North Records
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