Brand new single out now
It’s the small town blues like perhaps we’ve not heard it before – ever so slightly narcissistic, but with the sink or swim swagger that saw Todd Dorigo land in the big smoke. He emerges with new single ‘Backdrop To Boredom’, with its opening refrain –“Long live me…Time to leave” – serving one hell of an introduction to Dorigo’s booming baritone and steadfast backbeat.
“The song was written at a time when I left my home town up north for London,” he explains. “Middlewich wasn’t exactly the melting pot of creativity and I had been playing in Manchester and Liverpool for years cutting my teeth. Everyone seemed to be on the well-trodden path to stability, and I wasn’t really interested.
“Chasing my passion for music seemed like two-fingers up to my education and to any well-intended guidance I’d ever received. At the time, I think I was so desperate to shake things up and make things happen that the thought of comfort frustrated me as it suggested a lack of movement or progression.”
Born of modest Middlewich, ‘Backdrop To Boredom’ soundtracks the new Burberrycampaign launching this month, in which Dorigo also features. Here’s his Burberry Acoustic Session from earlier this year: youtube.com/watch?v=qNP_ZWu6Llo
It’s not the first time he’s flirted with high-end fashion, having (somewhat reluctantly) fallen into aVogue shoot alongside Suki Waterhouse when she saw him sound-checking before a show at The Troubadour in London.
‘Backdrop To Boredom’ marks Todd Dorigo’s first official release, via London-based singles club 0E0E (pronounced ‘Naughty Naughty’) and hints to the forthcoming release of a debut EP later this year.
‘Backdrop To Boredom’ is out now
via 0E0E: 0e0e.lnk.to/backdrop-to-boredom
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