Australia's Armlock have been on the rise since their 2024 album Seashell Angel Lucky Charm. The duo toured with Snail Mail earlier this year, and Anxious named them as an influence for their latest song "Don't Move." Now, they're back with "Half Time."
"'Half Time' is mostly trying to describe the gap between existing and feeling," the band says, expanding:
"Tell me how to hear it" became a central lyric, treating emotion as an elusive frequency I'm trying to hear but can’t quite tap into. It's not meant to be a sad song, it's more anchored in the frustration of trying to extract more from every passing moment and wanting to feel what’s under the surface.
We recorded the song in our usual way in our own studios, chopping and changing as we go. Pieces recorded in different tempos and sometimes different keys. You're listening to version 1 and version 50 at the same time. Demo memos and final takes live together in the master. Once again we got Geography and Juice Webster to jump in on the backing vocals. The video for "Half Time" was made with Tom Dunphy and Bridgette Winten. It was important to us that the video had a lot of color, in reference to the lyric "just another rainbow." We shot everything in double time with quite a lot of over-the-top energy, though when we play it back in half time it looks pretty subdued, which is kind of perfect for the meaning of the track.
Watch the video below.
