Australian visceral noisemakers, Fan Girl return with a brand new, head-spinning single in ‘Easy Now’, which marks the next step for the band and a taste of their upcoming EP, ‘8HRS’.

This is fresh off the heels of Fan Girl’s first UK tour, a BBC6 New Music Fix Live Session, and roaring momentum from their previous EP, ‘Real or Staged’ and the head-rushing single, ‘Flood’.

The latest single sees the band presented in a whole new light, with ‘Easy Now’ delivering an anxiously restless hope, laid bare over dystopic drum machines and propulsive breakbeats. The song speaks to the feeling of holding onto someone who’s slowly drifting out of frame, and the aching realisation that sometimes the best you can do is set them free, and hope they one day return.

Mesmerising in the way it merges experimental indie, breakbeats and atmospheric rock, ‘Easy Now’ is as soothing as it is quietly anxiety-ridden. Fan Girl tap into a swirl of intercontinental influences here, building a musical vortex where the rhythm section paces with nervous energy and shards of guitar intersect and collide. Meanwhile, the keys and vocals drift above it all, offering a kind of dreamlike counterweight to the chaos below.

‘Easy Now’ feels like Kid A-era Radiohead refracted through the sharp edges of Bloc Party — restless, immersive and just a little unhinged. It’s the kind of mad genius that makes your head spin, but somehow leaves you clearer on the other side.

‘8HRS’ is the result of a band sprawled across three continents - sampling the streets of Guadalajara, channeling the hum of the Paris Metro, and reconnecting with the unbridled ambition of their beginnings in Melbourne - all time-zoned exactly eight hours apart.

Shaped by lives in three wildly different cities, and with the band’s usual modus operandi far behind them, ‘8HRS’ is the full realisation of what makes Fan Girl, Fan Girl: not geography, not genre, not process, but the collective creative energy between them.

‘8HRS’ is a manic run through an abomination of influences - trip hop, transient field recordings, big feelings, chopped drums, widescreen cinematic drama, ramshackle acoustic contemplation, free-form noise, and low-speed internet compression.

The song takes its visual form with a truly hypnotic music video, cut up by the band using otherworldly vintage footage colliding along to the propulsive motion of the song.

To celebrate the release of Easy Now’, Fan Girl will be playing a free hometown show at Northcote Social Club on March 2, before heading over to the UK & Europe in April/May.

The band will make their Paris debut at Supersonic on April 15, and return to London to take on Sebright Arms on May 7, with more shows to be announced.

Tickets & details available at fangirl.com.au

Known for their boundary-pushing sounds and explosive live shows, not to mention emotionally unpredictable and artful songwriting, Fan Girl are one of Australia’s next ‘ones to watch’ artists.

‘Easy Now’ is streaming right now on all digital platforms.