Icona Pop talk release of hard-edged new single Faster and 10 years of I Love It with Charli XCX
31.03.2023 - 15:05
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You know Icona Pop. They got this feeling on the summer day when you were gone. They crashed their car into the bridge.
Well, for their latest single, the Swedish duo have chosen instead to crash their car directly into the rave on their hard-edged new single Faster, the latest taste of their forthcoming third studio album.
We caught up with Caroline and Aino as they returned to London (the duo were once based in the capital, apparently living in a flat on Portobello Road, god knows how much that would cost today!) to chat about the new single and the 10 year celebration of I Love It with Charli XCX hitting Number 1 in the UK - yes, it really has been 10 years.
We're super excited to be back and to be releasing music. We have an album in the pipeline - we're generally just very excited at the moment.
We used to live in London, did you know? We used to live on Portobello Road. We feel very at home here.
We had so much fun making that one. When we went into the process of [writing the album], we said...OK, there are no rules. Let's do whatever we feel like.
It's definitely not a typical pop song in its structure. It's, essentially, a few words and a lot of vibes. We decided to keep it like that. We've had the song for like two years, we didn't even re-do our [demo] vocals. A lot of these songs have been in the making for a long time.
I think sometimes, when you write a song, you don't necessarily know what to do with it. We didn't know what to do with Faster when we first wrote it. We knew it was a pretty weird song, in a good way! Our whole album actually turned out pretty weird. It's perfect
It's going to be a mix. It's like everything is inbetween Faster and [Galantis collab] I Want You. We have some more pop tunes,