🎧 Approved: No Windows

Edinburgh duo No Windows return with a quietly affecting new single, ‘Tricky’, a warm, off-kilter love song taken from their upcoming EP ‘The Great Traitor’. It follows a standout year for the band, who signed to Fat Possum while still in their teens, toured across the UK and Europe with Slow Pulp, and picked up the Sound Of Young Scotland Award along the way.

Built around Morgan Morris’s intricate guitar lines and Verity Slangen’s unflinching vocals, ‘Tricky’ leans into the band’s more tender side without losing their edge. Produced by Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Sorry), it takes their bedroom-born songwriting into richer, more cinematic territory - drawing on 70s chamber pop and the soft-focus textures of film score composers like Jon Brion.

“This is as much of a love song as we’ll likely ever write”, says Morris. “Verity and I are quite cynical people so sometimes love songs can seem benign to us. There’s definitely a time and a place though. Sometimes there’s this beautiful cohesion that occurs between us, it was a joy writing this song despite its deceivingly difficult guitar part that I loathe playing live, hence the song’s name”. 

🎧 Watch the video for ‘Tricky’ below