Edinburgh duo No Windows share poignant new single titled ‘Easter Island’. Alongside the new single, the band have also shared details of a new run of live dates for 2025. In 2024, multi-instrumentalist Morgan Morris and lyricist Verity Slangen signed to Fat Possum records at 18 and 19-years-old respectively, with just one self-released EP (Fishboy) to their name.
The Great Traitor EP set for release on 9 May (Fat Possum) expands the duo’s sonic territory even further, leaving the more familiar indie traits behind in favour of lush, psychedelic arrangements that take their cues from 70s chamber pop (George Harrison, Leonard Cohen) and film score composer Jon Brion (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Produced with Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Sorry, Yard Act), the recording process took them out of Morgan’s DIY bedroom set-up and into a studio, where they had access to a breadth of instruments that allowed for more exploration across the EPs six tracks.
The new single ‘Easter Island’ marks the first track the band have written to be sung as a duet from start to finish, and is emblematic of how much Morgan and Verity’s creative relationship has grown over the past years. The emotive and intricate acoustic EP closer sees mellifluous fingerpicking weave around the duos simultaneous vocal lines, with subtle piano, Vibraphone, and tape loop ambience floating in and out of the track.
Speaking on the track, Morgan says:
“‘Easter Island’ may be the most collaborative song we’ve written, there was almost no separation between both of our roles in that moment. Usually, our instinct after finishing on a song’s spine is to think about arrangement, instrumentation, and production. The works. However, after finishing up ‘Easter Island’, we felt perfectly content with where it was. The song remains almost the same as when we played it in my room for the first time.”
Verity continues:
“It was written at the end of the relationship that inspired so much of this EP, I have written so many breakup songs and this one shows my maturity in being able to take a gentler and more nuanced approach on the situation. As Morgan said, I cannot separate our roles in this song, I felt very unrooted while writing it, and the collaborative element signifies to me the most constant thing in my life, music and me and Morgan’s relationship.”
The new track is accompanied by a stunning new visual directed by CLUMP Collective. The warm and nostalgic video sees the duo sat around a fire, with an intense focus on the fire and the embers rising up in front of them.
No Windows Live Dates
May
9 Edinburgh – Assai Records (EP release day instore)
22 London – Footsteps Festival – w/ The Vaselines
24 Bristol – Dot To Dot Festival
25 Nottingham – Dot To Dot Festival
June
14 Edinburgh – Hidden Door Festival
21 London – Rough Trade East (headline)
September
26 Glasgow – The Rum Shack (headline)
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