Slovene alternative rock band Koala Voice unveiled their latest single and video, ‘The Bigger The City’, on the 23rd of June via the Nika label. The single is taken from their fifth official studio album, which will be released in spring, 2024.
Having previously opened for the eminent American Alt-rock band The Pixies, the quartet has cemented their international appeal, winning a HEMI Music Award (2022) as well as a Golden Flute Award in the category of Album of The Year for their 2021 project Plata.
Koala Voice has toured the Balkans three times, toured North Europe and the Baltics once and even toured Eastern Europe and Spain. They have played big venues and festivals like Exit Festival, and their audience is constantly growing. In the past year, they have established themselves as an alternative band that headlines the biggest venues in Slovenia with a sound reminiscent of Paramore, Wolf Alice, and Phoebe Bridgers.
Directed by Igor Perić, with Laura Lavrič Cascio assisting on camera, the video takes the listeners into a studio recording session with the band and features lead vocalist/guitarist Manca Trampuš playing alongside guitarist Domen Don Holc, drummer Miha Prašnikar and bass player Tilen Prašnikar. The crisp sting of guitar distortion leads us into the ‘The Bigger The City’. A grand piano adds a cinematic quality only bolstered by climactic drums, giving the record an epic feel. Like a city, it is expansive and buzzing with life.
Koala Voice says on the single, “This piece for me is about loneliness. About how sometimes in familiar company you feel alone and not understood. About how quickly people forget and how some things stay with us forever. About what it’s like to be big and feel small and about all the other variations of that phrase.”
Stream / Download: Koala Voice – ‘The Bigger The City’
