Balderdasch shares new single “Stillness Gyrating” co-prod Pete Wareham (Nadine Shah, The Smile)
Irish London-based experimental pop artist Balderdasch returns with “Stillness Gyrating” out via Apollo
Additional production and mixing by Pete Wareham, mastering by Jamie Hyland of M(h)aol
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Praise for Balderdasch
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“An angsty alt pop anthem for all of us…talk about hitting the nail on the head”
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Having teased new material in September during a radio broadcast for New York art publishers Montez Press Radio, Balderdasch today shares new single, 'Stillness Gyrating'.
The single was self-produced, recorded between her flat and the home studio of experimental saxophonist Pete Wareham, who provided additional production and mixing. The brooding, evocative track was mastered by Jamie Hyland of M(h)aol, who first discovered Balderdasch’s music after she was announced as a showcasing artist for Ireland Music Week 2024.
Stillness Gyrating is, at its core, about the realisation that no matter how much someone thinks they want you, if you don’t align, you will always feel unable to meet their needs. You’re frozen while they dance around you.
“When someone says, ‘You don’t know how good we have it,’ it doesn’t sound like love,” Balderdasch says. “It sounds like, ‘You’re unhappy, but this is all you deserve.’”
The cover was shot on Sherkin Island, off the coast of Cork, Ireland, by Balderdasch and her best friend Fai West - just the two of them, a digicam, and hours of stillness.
“It was important to me to shoot the visuals in Ireland, styled in this way,” she adds. “When I was growing up in Cork, the repression of sex, desire, and queerness at the time mainly in my immediate surroundings but perhaps societally too, really inhibited me. It followed me into adulthood. This song is about standing on the precipice of ending a relationship and beginning a journey towards understanding how to let myself give in to my own desires without shame.”
A headline London show at The Victoria, Dalston is confirmed for 21 February 2026, with tickets on sale now.
