Listen to The Japanese House’s country-inspired new single ‘:)’
nme.comThe Japanese House has shared a country-inspired new single ‘:)’ (pronounced ‘Smiley Face’) – check it out below.Described in a press release as an “ode to happiness”, the bright country-pop track follows the artist’s recent second album ‘In The End It Always Does’ and tells the story of how her current relationship and the effect it had – “Something’s happening/I feel happier/I could be losing my mind,” she sings in the chorus.“‘Smiley Face’ is a song I wrote when I was very excited about talking to someone off a dating app,” said the artist (real name Amber Bain). “She lived in Detroit and I was fantasising about flying to meet her.
I was in a session at the time for someone else stuff but I couldn’t help this song spilling out of me, I was in some sort of frenzy.
Turns out I did buy the plane tickets, now we’re engaged.”Bain co-produced the song alongside George Daniel from Dirty Hit labelmates The 1975.
She had also opened for them on their ‘Still… At Their Very Best’ tour earlier this year.Check out ‘:)’ below:Bain is currently in the middle of a US tour and is also set to headline the Festival Republic stage at Reading and Leeds in August.In our four-star review of her latest album, NME said: “If Bain’s lyrics are poised to pull you one way on ‘In The End It Always Does’, her voice and instrumentals yank you back in the other direction – it’s disorientating, dizzying and utterly intoxicating.
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