On-the-rise Australian trio Telenova share 'Power', the latest offering taken from their forthcoming, debut album, Time Is A Flower - to be released on August 16 via Fiction.
The elegant disco track comes with an official video directed by frontwoman Angeline Armstong that is brimming with vibrant colour and otherworldly imagination. The track was co-produced by the band and Styalz Fuego who has also produced tracks for Troye Sivan, Tate McCrae, Odesza, Imagine Dragons.
Speaking about the song’s creation Angeline explains: “The song is a fable-like story of a flower in love with the sun, but the sun is setting. And the flower is afraid of being left alone in the darkness without the very thing that gives it power and strength. Of course, the flower unaware that the sun inevitably always rises again. The more we kept building out the lyrics the more Josh and I realized its a fairly multi-layered metaphor for love.”
Listen to ‘Power’ by Telenova on the F1 Tracks Playlist on Spotify.
Angelina continues: “Inevitably (and beautifully) people will hear different things in the meaning of ‘Power’, it resonates on a romantic-love kind of micro level, but can really extend out to a divine kind of love and existential longing – whatever your idea of ‘God’ or the universe or something ‘bigger’ it’s the cry of a human being out to whatever is out there, to like, not be abandoned basically, not be left to our own devices all on our own. And then we shroud that all in a big fun dancey disco tune – because why not.”
Telenova is formed of Asian-Australian frontwoman Angeline Armstrong, who combines her brilliance as a songwriter and filmmaker to form the magic you hear today, and Edward Quinn & Joshua Moriarty who are incredibly talented multi-instrumentalists and songwriters. The band were initially influenced by the likes of Karen O, Caroline Polachek, Portishead, Weyes Blood, Gorillaz, Radiohead and Lana Del Rey but pull together from different personal tastes which forms the eclectic sound on everything they do.
The band has also announced their European Tour for later this year. It will see them pass through the Greek, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish. German, Belgian, French, Dutch and English – at The Outernet’s The Lower Third on October 1 – capitals amongst other cities, where they’ll be playing various songs from their forthcoming debut album.
