A Cold Summer

Press Release

On July 16, 1945, a group of teenage girls at a summer camp in New Mexico were thrown from their beds by the shockwave of the Trinity Test, the first nuclear explosion in history, detonated roughly 80km away. Hours later, white flakes began falling from the sky. It was July. They thought it was snowing. They ran outside, caught the flakes on their tongues, rubbed them into their skin. It was radioactive fallout. Of the 12 girls at that camp, only one survived past middle age.

That image, children playing in poison they can’t see, in a summer that has turned cold without warning, is the emotional and metaphorical core of the song. “Cold Summer” takes this moment and stretches it into the present: the feeling of living in a world that is accelerating and destabilizing in ways we can no longer name or predict. The ground shifts, something tremendous happens on the horizon, and we’re standing in it before we understand what it is.

Musically it sits at the intersection of avant rock and doom jazz, driven by a dystopian electronic pulse. Lyrically it is sparse and imagistic, sand turning to green glass, hot snow falling, a sky that shouldn’t be white. Dark but not defeated. Less a surrender, more a warning.

It is Theodore’s first new music since the album FIRE.

Credits

Music & lyrics by Theodore
Produced by Rob Flynn, Theodore
Recorded and engineered by Savvas Kaisaritis, Sotiris Ziliaskopoulos at Noisy King Studio
Assistant recording & engineering by Maria Katouna
Mixed by Rob Flynn
Mastered by Mark Dobson
Photography / artistic direction by Foteini Zaglara

Theodore: vocals & synths
Labrini Grigoriadou: guitars
Dennis Panagiotidis: drums
Alexandros Delis: bass
Nicolas Wastor: synths & piano

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