You Only Kill For Love, by Only Objects

You Only Kill For Love

by Only Objects

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	2.	You Only Kill For Love (Radio Edit) 04:54

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Adelaide synth pop genre-botherers Only Objects have never been a band to shy away from the dramatic, the overblown and the ambitious. That much is obvious from their brand new, widescreen technicolour single ‘You Only Kill For Love’. With its dramatic strings, heart-stopping synth riffs and falsetto backing vocals, this is a vivid slice of Cold War paranoia wrapped around orchestral-alt-pomp-rock.

It all started with a chord progression. Three simple shapes on a Korg M1 keyboard that sounded like they belonged in a John Barry-orchestrated James Bond theme, circa 1964. Produced by Adelaide’s own Datafire Audio, the resultant track is both a thundering original slice of contemporary alt.pop and the theme for an imaginary spy thriller.

Yet beyond the 80s synth horns, the FM-synth voice knob tweaking and the dubstep drop (you have been warned) there is a serious heart that beats at the core of ‘You Only Kill For Love’, using the Cold War as a metaphor for fracturing relationships. After all, is there any war colder than the one between two broken, complex human hearts?

The single comes with a radio edit of somewhat sensible length, as well as the full-length, full-blown descent into Fleming-esque espionage nightmare that is the original tune for those of you brave in spirit and rich in time (time, after all, being an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so).

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released November 18, 2017

Lyrics by Patrick Lang
Music by Only Objects

Produced by Datafire Audio
Recorded at Disk Edits Bowden, SAE Adelaide and the Only Objects Synth Den (TM)
Engineered by Alex Mader
Mastered by Alex Mader at MaderVMusic, Los Angeles

Artwork by Jesse Miles

www.facebook.com/onlyobjects/

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