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The second instalment in The Dialogue Series – Dialogue II will be released on One Little Indian Records on 24th August, culminating in a full album to be released on 12th October; The Dialogue Series. Lead single taken from the second EP in the trilogy, Typical Critical, explores the concept of online love vs real life love. “How we not only want to be loved and adored, but we want to feel it as well” says lyricist Kaktus Einarsson. “You want something more than to see it only through social media likes and emoji’s that someone loves you – you want to actually feel it. Feel a more complex love from what the world feeds on. Handmade love vs. mass-produced love.” The accompanying video features a YouTube juggler, which Kaktus tracked down after stumbling upon his performance videos: "I stumbled up on this guy on YouTube doing juggle tricks in a studio with a tripod camera. He was so mesmerizing doing the tricks; I just wanted to capture him as a person—this focused and serious, but careless and lonely person. I managed to contact him but he said he had retired. I somehow managed to convince him to take part, so we went to a studio and asked him to do a routine and filmed him—so amazing."

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Fufanu - Tokyo [Official Video]

Fufanu @ DEMON DAYZ 💥😈

For those who are wondering who is that Fufanu band : They’re a from Iceland. They’ve opened for Damon Albarn (Royal Albert Hall, 2014) and Blur (Hyde Park) a few times. Their lead singer, Kaktus Einarsson, was assistant engineer on Everyday Robots and played the trumpet on the song Hollow Pounds during the Everyday Robots tour (notamment à Lyon, Sydney, etc.). He is Einar Örn’s son (member of The Sugarcubes, visual artist and friend of Damon Albarn and the members of Blur). Damon remixed Fufanu’s single “Ballerina In The Rain” in 2016 and it’s really good.

Talking about the moody B&W video, singer Kaktus Einarsson said: "'Tokyo' is the first song from this record we worked on with Nick Zinner. It’s the track that made us realise we wanted to work together. It’s about coming back to your wins and losses in your daily reality after a week in Tokyo. Best/weirdest vacation I ever had, cut from the universe and placed in the mad bubble that Tokyo is. "The idea of doing this video was born when we met the artist and photographer Jonatan Gretarsson last summer, to be featured in his new book (Jonatan no.3). His style is great and the way he has managed to capture the personality of his subjects in photos is really beautiful so doing a video with him was exciting. "We had no idea what would happen on the day of shooting but when we arrived at the studio he had baroque music playing really loudly, and one by one we stood in front of the camera for more than 20 mins each! The result is a black and white video portrait of us."