“A formidable return from one of the best emerging bands in the country.”
– Dan Condon, Double J
Tarntanya/Adelaide’s Placement released their single on 16 June 2023; a song that emerged from the musical devastation of the pandemic. With intertwining vocal melodies, duelling saxophone and guitar solos and a hypnotic bassline, this is ‘New Disease’. Whatever inspiration could be found in the world simultaneously grinding to a halt, Placement have scraped up and packaged into this tight 3-minute song.
Malia Wearn (vocals) on ‘New Disease’:
“Placement played our first show at the start of 2020 and soon found ourselves struggling to exist in a world where live music in its usual form was not possible. The ghost of the threat of sickness seeped into every part of life, and of course our music. Unsurprisingly, ‘New Disease’ is a pandemic song. It’s about the things we believe in, and how they change and distort us, forcing us away from or towards reality. Confirmation bias, isolation, coping mechanisms whatever they are, we who are here made it through, but of course we are changed. Sometimes all we need is to be fed a line we can hold on to, an excuse to keep doing whatever we want to do. All of us caught the new disease, whatever that was, and we were never the same again.”
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