Banoffee – "Contagious"

After years collaborating with other artists, the Australian-born, LA-based pop singer and producer Banfee is finally releasing her own debut album, Look At Us Now Dad, next week. It features a pretty impressive array guests, including SOPHIE, Cupcakke, and Empress Of. We’ve already heard previews it by way “Tennis Fan” and “Count On You.” And today, she’s back with one more.

Titled “Contagious,” Banfee’s latest track is another glimpse idiosyncratic future pop that makes perfect sense for someone who’s been on tour with Charli XCX. And while a song named “Contagious” might first conjure a pop song that’s about a dizzying kind attraction, Banfee’s take is quite the opposite — in the chorus, she sings giving a partner space, the idea that she’s “contagious” with something they don’t want. The whole thing takes place over rippling synths and a kind push-pull tension that reflects the narrative Banfee sketches out.

The track comes with a video directed by Lewis Mitchell, Callum Mitchell, and Banfee. It focuses solely on Banfee, alone in a white dress as she wrestles with the lyrics she’s singing. Here’s what she had to say about the concept:

The video is about loneliness and the feelings ostracization that arise when your issues seem too much for the world to handle. It follows a woman roaming the landscape in a wedding dress, totally prepared to give herself up to something, yet completely alone and isolated by her sadness. The circles in the clip represent a safety zone, something I created for myself when I felt like I had to hide what I was going through in order to seem fit for love or friendship. I wanted the video to evoke a sense longing and eeriness, like everyone has gone home, fed up with the things I still need and crave…

Check it out below.

Look At Us Now Dad is out 2/21 Cascine/Dot Dash.