We've been grooving to tunes from Joshua Idehen's debut album I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try since last fall. Today the Stockholm-based performer has another relentlessly positive jam to go along with "It Always Was" and "Don't Let It Get You Down." The new "This Is The Place" is once again produced by Ludvig Parment, and it sounds like jubilation in an extremely plush nightclub, "traveling at the speed of bass." It's a bit cheesy when Idehen drops spoken-word lyrics like "In this moment I feel connected to something deeper," but the good vibes overwhelm my cynicism.
Here's his statement on the track:
The way I squealed when Ludvig sent this beat over! When I heard it, I was taken back to bouncing in-between rooms early morning in Fabric, on one of those weekend nights that felt so non-special at the time "just another average night out" but were a quiet healing, a ordinary burst of joy, and I wanted to capture that feeling. "This is the place where I pick all my pieces up" was the first line, and everything else flowed after that.
PREHUMAN, who directed the video for "This Is The Place," shared some words too:
Joshua is an unusually compelling performer — put him in front of a camera and much of the work is already done. The video itself is deliberately stripped back, with no distractions. I wanted the feeling of a shared space, like a club: bodies moving together, connection through rhythm.
The treatment is clean and minimal, but the movement is intentionally angular and imperfect. I love the line "everyone's a bit broken here". Those ’90s white cyc music videos with fisheye lenses were a strong reference point throughout. Ludvig on the old MPC3000 was the icing on the cake.
Watch below.
I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try is out 3/6 on Heavenly.
