Stand Atlantic announce new album Was Here, share “GIRL$”

Stand Atlantic have introduced their new album, Was Right here, and the follow-up to 2022’s f.e.a.r. arrives Aug. 23 through Hopeless Information.

“GIRL$” serves because the album’s first preview, which enlists Lynn Gunn of PVRIS and Amalia Ramírez of Bruses. It additionally comes with an absurdly enjoyable video that options the trio as outdated women who play on hip-hop’s worst tropes as they flash fats stacks and hit the strip membership.

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“I really feel just like the message of the music speaks for itself,” vocalist Bonnie Fraser shares of the collab. “I needed to point out my appreciation for girls and personally, my expertise rising up realizing I used to be interested in girls however nonetheless feeling like I needed to match the mildew of the male gaze, simply primarily based on the best way I used to be influenced by a male-dominated society. I hope different queer girls and ladies usually resonate with this observe, but in addition anybody in between. I wrote it for anybody who’s ever felt squashed by the unusual and refined pressures society can place on younger folks primarily based off old-as-shit paradigms.

“That being stated, having Lynn (PVRIS) and Amalia (Bruses) on this observe made it a lot extra significant to me personally. Each feminine, queer, and gifted artists I respect a lot. Making this music video was a friggen fuel. Me and Lynn each had the identical concept independently of one another when she agreed to be on the observe — ‘Let’s be outdated women.’ I’m positive folks anticipated us all to be promoting intercourse and queer-baiting the shit out of this — so we did what any rap video would do, however as outdated women.”

See the video for “GIRL$,” in addition to the album paintings and tracklist, under.