TELENOVA Release Highly Anticipated EP Stained Glass Love

TELENOVA
Release Highly Anticipated EP
Stained Glass Love

New Zealand tour dates
Fri 19 Aug – Tuning Fork, Auckland NZ
Sat 20 Aug – Meow, Wellington NZ
Tickets on sale from telenovamusic.com.au

Fresh from taking out the Best Breakthrough Artist at this year’s AIR Awards, Melbourne-based trio Telenova release their highly anticipated sophomore EP Stained Glass Love via Pointer Recordings alongside focus track of the same name.

The five-track omnibus includes highly lauded singles ‘Why Do I Keep You’, ‘Haunted’ and fan favourite ‘Scarlet’. In celebration of the extended-release the band will take to the road travelling around Australia and New Zealand this August, September and October.

Stained Glass Love is widescreen pop music, cinematic in scope and ambitious in design. Despite the sweeping sonics and muffled club beats offering escapism of the higher order, enchanting front-woman Angeline Armstrong’s lyrics are drenched in real-world pain, private universes nestled within the sleek musical beds. The tracks on Stained Glass Love delve into self-destruction, heartbreak, addiction, desire, anxiety, isolation, and – eventually – rebirth. There’s a coming-of-age narrative weaved through the entire tapestry and a mature restraint to the production, deftly handled by multi-instrumentalists Edward Quinn and Joshua Moriarty.

“The writing of this EP was a pretty visceral experience,” Armstrong explains. “The majority of these songs were written in the heart of Melbourne’s long lockdowns and I think we all understand that feeling of being hyper introspective at that time.”

The EP’s title track is the emotional anchor, a tale of rebirth laid over roadtrip beats before a huge chorus bursts through the clouds, warming like sunshine and hitting like a hard-earned epiphany. “These five songs all felt like a shedding of the skin for me, peeling it back, layer by layer,” Armstrong continues. “I can pinpoint the exact moments and experiences in my past that really marked me and grew me as a person. Those moments form the setting of each of these five songs – and there’s a strange sense of both fear and solace in being able to take you there with me.”

The self-assured first single ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ plays on ‘90s melancholic guitar pop, while follow up ‘Haunted’ tells a hypnotic tale of addiction, with echoes of Northern Soul amidst dark dub, all draped in dramatic synth strings. Focus track ‘Scarlet’ is all raindrop pianos, and FM static; subtle runs chiming like morning bells, and ‘Silver Lining’ elucidates the diversity of the record, marrying Armstrong’s smoky tales of anxiety and loneliness with a gauzy trip-hop track.

The band have been buoyed by recent success, receiving praise from key taste-makers across the country. ‘Why Do I Keep You’ was swiftly added to full rotation on triple j alongside triple j Unearthed and Double J completing the trifecta, while ‘Haunted’ debuted with a first play on triple j Drive and has sat in their 50 Most Played Tracks since it’s release. The group has also graced a host of covers across Spotify and Apple Music, with the latter crowning the band as one of their Up Next artists in May.

The band’s upcoming return to Australian stages, following an appearance at The Great Escape (UK) as well as sold-out debut London shows, will be their biggest yet alongside dates on Falls Festival, Spilt Milk and Lost Paradise. With the new EP in tow, replete with soaring vocals and wistful production, Telenova are cementing themselves as one of Australia’s brightest new talents.

WATCH Telenova – ‘Scarlet’ (Official Video)