A sweeping slice of psych pop, ’23 Floors Up’ is a song of high-rise hotel passions and paranoia. The video is directed by band member Jonny Sanders, who after making the “anti-video” of coloured dots for debut single ‘Cristina’, has been handling the visual aspect of Teleman including the industrial archival footage video for ‘Steam Train Girl’ and the album artwork.
Produced by Bernard Butler, variety abounds on ‘Breakfast’. From the pared-back ‘Cristina’ and the modernist proposition of ‘Steam Train Girl’ (both former singles which clocked up plays across Radio 1 and earned themselves Playlist spots on BBC 6Music and Xfm) to the sax-drenched free download ‘Lady Low’ and the startling 'Mainline', a jolt of warped, electro-fied chain-gang blues.
‘‘It’s like visions from a dream in places,'' singer Thomas Sanders explains. ''I love really strong images. You hear a lyric and as soon as the lyric is said you see it in front of you. A lot of the lyrics are based on personal experience, but a lot of it, is story-telling and a lot of it is fiction,'' adds Thomas. “I’m purposefully ambiguous. I love listening to other people’s interpretations’. If that’s what they’ve understood then that is a meaning in itself. In the same way as if you look at a painting and you see something, you’ve definitely seen it, it’s definitely real for you."
After bringing last year to a close by touring with Suede, the quartet have recently supported Metronomy, Franz Ferdinand and Maximo Park and will be heading out on their own headline tour in May. They are also confirmed for a string of festivals including Field Day, Green Man, Wilderness, Deer Shed and Secret Garden Party.
