Frontperson release debut single, “Tick-Tock (Frontrunner)” from their upcoming album

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Kathryn Calder (New Pornographers) and Mark Andrew Hamilton (Woodpigeon) have announced a new collaboration called Frontperson and are set to release their debut album, Frontrunner on September 21st via Calder’s own record label, Oscar St. Records.  The lead single, “Tick-Tock (Frontrunner)” is available for your viewing and listening pleasure, below.

Hamilton had this to say on the track and video, “Recording this album, we kept a photo from the record’s cover on the soundboard throughout the entire process. The photograph was given to me by artist Ambrose Fan almost 20 years ago, after which point he and I lost touch – yet the photo stayed with me wherever we went. The title of the song and record came to me while looking at it, and the video at the track meet just followed naturally as something that fit it perfectly. What I personally love about the video is seeing a bunch of people running and racing and achieving in their chosen sports but backwards – so no-one is winning and their accomplishments are erased. They’re all equalized because everyone ends up right where they started – which to me is a fun play on the song because lyrically some of it has to do with the passage of time and the shortness of time that is left to get certain things done. I also love how the video kind of disintegrates by the end the same way that the mellotron notes blur out.”

Calder continues, “For this song, I was thinking about the push and pull – reactions, dynamics – that we have as we try to work things out in our interactions with people. I think there’s this play between what Mark is talking about and what I’m talking about, almost separately, like two streams of thought in the verse, and then we come together in the chorus, unified. I like to imagine it a little bit like a microcosm of what goes on in the world – we each have our streams of thoughts, and then there are certain things that are common ground, like the passing of time for example.”<

We absolutely love this new song and are stoked to share it with you today!

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