Speedy Wunderground have started 2021 as they mean to go on, the lack of live opportunities doing nothing to halt the momentum of a label that has always thrived on never sitting still.
Following a start to the year that has seen the release of the first new material from revered songwriter Stephen Fretwell in 13 years, a new collaboration between Polish avant-pop artist Brodka and Scottibrains and the latest single release from much-tipped Hebden Bridge teenagers The Lounge Society, Speedy Wunderground announced the thrilling 21st release taken from the label’s in-lockdown Quarantine Series at the and of last month. As with previous releases, it saw Savage Gary – the pseudonym of label boss and producer Dan Carey – pairing his own arrangements to a vocal contribution, this time from Domino Recordings’ Georgia.
Mercury nominated for last year’s “Seeking Thrills”, and recently announced as 2021’s ambassador for Love Record Stores, Georgia is a long-term friend of Dan’s, the two of them having played together as bandmates in an early incarnation of Kae Tempest’s live set-up.
An undeniable banger, “Nothing To Say” features skewed, fidgety electro and carnival-pop from Carey propelled by an immediate and surefire vocal hook from Georgia, who had the following to say about their decision to collaborate and the single:
I love Savage Gary. I love Dan. When he sent me the initial beat it was so different and beautiful in its simplicity that the melody just came to me instantaneously. I put down the vocals in a couple hours and sent them to Dan…. next thing you know it sounds like this! FIRE.
The track was mixed by Dan’s 16 year old daughter Orla Carey. Who has previously mixed records for Scottibrains, Goat Girl, Pynch and Girl Ray – proving that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Today, knowing they’ve musical fireworks here in “Nothing To Say” that they can’t set off in the live environment just yet, close friends of the label Alex Gent and Daisy J Smith at Ampix got Georgia and Dan got together at the Speedy Wunderground studio in order to film a session that captures exactly what we’re missing out on. Whilst not forgetting to pump in some billowing smoke and lasers for the occasion, too.
“Nothing To Say” will see a vinyl release later this year as part of Savage Gary – Quarantine Sampler 3, the third EP to collect what has now been over 12 months of locked-down Wunderground gems from Carey and friends.