CMU Approved

Approved: NZCA Lines – Oh… (Call Me Back)

By | Published on Monday 13 June 2016

NZCA Lines

The latest edition of the Southbank Centre’s Meltdown Festival, this year curated by that Guy Garvey, kicked off on Friday. And as it did, NZCA Lines released a new song, commissioned by BBC 6 Music as part of the station’s coverage of the event. ‘Oh… (Call Me Back)’ was constructed using samples recorded around the Southbank Centre’.

“The drums on ‘Oh… (Call Me Back)’ are made from samples of sounds from the Southbank, as well as some of the keyboard parts being made from feeding those same samples into a delay and making it self-resonate, thus producing a tone that we built the patch from”, explains NZCA main man Michael Lovett.

“Lyrically, the song is from the perspective of a guy who’s been stood up by his date after they arranged to meet at the Southbank to watch a film”, he continues. “She’s at home in the bath. Because he’s at the Southbank and there’s loads of different stuff to do, he passes the time by sitting in a cafe, seeing some art, reading his book. It’s all inspired by the creation of these two characters and the setting of the arts centre”.

NZCA Lines will play Meltdown on 15 Jun, followed by various festivals over the summer. You can also catch them doing a headline show in London on 28 Sep at Village Underground.

Listen to ‘Oh… (Call Me Back)’ here:

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