For the past seven years, Rebecca Orchard and Rupert Thomas have crafted experimental and evocative synthesiser music as Erasers, living on Noongar land in Western Australia. With a synthesiser backbone, other groups might lean onto pop tendencies or further away into ambient atmospheres with their music, but Erasers specialise in their own hypnotic take that feels as psychedelic as it is focused. With their third album Constant Connection on the way, today we’ve been treated to a new teaser of the record with the expansive ‘A Breeze’.

Picking up where their previous single, the album’s title track, left off, ‘A Breeze’ opens with a minimalist drum track before layers of looming synths emerge to immerse the soundscape in a dense, cloudy haze. It’s simultaneously sinister and lively, the darker tones wrestling with fluid lead lines as Rebecca’s brooding vocals gleam down the middle of the track. As their press release suggests, there’s a hymnal quality to her performance, but on ‘A Breeze’ there’s a turbulent undercurrent that anchors the delivery, enabling each sporadic lyric to hit directly, loaded with potent power.

Speaking about the track, the band share “while our song making process is rarely to make a song with a set theme, structure or goal in mind, at the time of writing this song there was (and still is) a heavy and devastating crisis of women feeling unsafe walking alone at night. It’s interesting that the words that resonated at the time were the ones that ended up in this song on repeat.”

The track’s clip, created by Erasers, is similarly stoic. Shot by the duo across locations in South West, Western Australia, the video highlights the stunning beauty of the area while revealing the natural ebb and flow that exists within Erasers’ music; an atmosphere that allows the emotional weight of the track plenty of space to crash over us as ‘A Breeze’ stretches out.