WATCH: "Fiona Coyne" - http://youtu.be/Bw_7UrqzNUg
STREAM: "Fiona Coyne" - https://soundcloud.com/carparkrecords/fionacoyne
Following last week's release of his new single "Fiona Coyne," Saint Pepsi is back today to share the track's appropriately lovelorn video. The Matt Walker-directed video has the teenage feel of Degrassi, which is appropriate considering the origin of the song's title comes from one of the show's characters. Check out the video along with a stream of the track above and see below for more info on Saint Pepsi's forthcoming 7".
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For his Carpark debut, Saint Pepsi takes a step away from the more genre-shuffling styles of his Internet releases to focus his skills on high-power pop. The title track of the "Fiona Coyne" 7-inch is an uplifting tribute to fantastical romance and the joyous dreams pop culture can provide. Mastermind Ryan DeRobertis lays down a funky guitar riff and bass line of Chic-quality to tease our senses before tickling us silly with the chorus' ecstatic horns. "My love's on the silver screen/ she's always playing make believe," sings the 21-year-old songwriter, playing a bit of make-believe himself. The song, named after a certain graduate of Degrassi Community School, acts out the fantasy of dating a TV star and plays with the idea that music can be something of a catalyst for romance.
The b-side, "Fall Harder," is a lovelorn hit about a somewhat unattainable beauty. "You've got me under your spell/ and baby, I couldn't fall harder," DeRobertis sings over an Orange Juice-worthy riff and electronic subtleties like the sound of a Galaga battle. For this 7-inch, DeRobertis wrote danceable love songs with a nostalgic aesthetic to the production "because I think nostalgia is inherently narcissistic and I'm currently very into the idea of exploring the connection between nostalgia and narcissism," he says.
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