Melbourne artist Eva Popov has been writing, producing and performing adventurous inimitable indie pop as Hello Satellites for over a decade now. Eva’s expansive and genre bending sound has traversed many realms of the music landscape, undulating seamlessly through folk, pop, neoclassical and experimental tropes across three studio albums, each navigating the world with the sure-footedness of a true exploratory artist. Now, the sonic nomad is excited to reveal her latest offering ‘No Delivery’ lifted from her forthcoming 2021 album There Is A Field.
Out today, ‘No Delivery’ is a cold plunge into the addictive nature of excessive screen time and a danceable reminder about looking beyond palm-sized validation. Beckoning horns signpost snappy wake-up calls and self-help mantras before breaking into a cruisey rhythm you can’t help but succumb to. Recorded with long-time collaborator Nick Huggins (Seagull; Dirty Three) and featuring drums by Heath Robertson and sax by Flora Carbo, the self-produced disco confessional is the second taste of Hello Satellites’ anticipated fourth studio album There Is a Field, following from last year’s moody folk narrative, ‘Thief’.
“No Delivery is a 2.38 minute electronic pop experiment about being addicted to my phone, dopamine hits and magical thinking. I have watched other people do amazing things and live amazing lives whilst I waited for some sort of love hit to come through the screen and solve everything. This song was written as a guitar song to remind myself that nothing was going to be given to me and that I was just going to have to go out into the world and do stuff as my own imperfect self and fail and feel things. I had a lot of fun remaking this song as an obnoxious disco track.”
– Eva Popov, Hello Satellites
Set to be released independently this autumn, There Is A Field sees Hello Satellites harnessing the magic within the mundane. Shaped by the limitations of a long Melbourne lockdown, the record explores vast expansive moments hidden in the nooks and crannies of Popov’s own home and mind. “Each song was a joyous, wide open space to occupy, whilst the outside world felt so closed and restricted under lockdown” Popov explains, noting walk-in robe vocal takes, internet virtual choir collaborations and guitar and piano recordings snatched up in the quiet, stolen moments of working motherhood. The result is a wondrously vibrant world of imagination and awe, candidly unearthed from the most uninspiring of circumstances.
‘No Delivery’ is out now via Ditto
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‘No Delivery’ Credits
Produced by Eva Popov
Recorded by Eva Popov and Nick Huggins
Mixed by Nick Huggins
Mastered by Lachlan McCarrick
Special Guests:
Heath Robertson – Drums
Flora Carbo – Saxophone
‘No Delivery’ Lyrics
It cannot be brought to me
It cannot be brought to me
There is no delivery
It won’t be brought to me
Tried to make it come to good
Tried to give it all I could
But this isn’t Hollywood
Hollywood
See what I want walking right on by
See what I want down a different street, someone else’s life
But I look, pictures on a screen
Scrolling on and on and on what I could have been
It cannot be brought to me
It cannot be brought to me
No one’s gonna give it for free
It won’t be brought to me
Tried to say the magic words
So the hurting wouldn’t hurt
So it wouldn’t hurt
But the magic didn’t work
See what I want . . .
Come on, Come on Come on (etc)
And stop observing
Come on Come on Come on,
And start to live
Come on Come on Come on
It may be damaged
Come on Come on Come on
It’s what you’ve got to give
