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Bobby Freemont Delivers New Single ‘clementine skies’
Bobby Freemont’s latest single, clementine skies, arrives like a soft gust of wind carrying both sorrow and solace. Written in the wake of his grandfather’s passing, the song delves into the oscillating pull of grief and memory, blending personal storytelling with expansive indie soundscapes. From the very first note, Freemont establishes an intimate connection with the listener, inviting us into a space of reflection and vulnerability.
Co-produced with Stephen Kerr, the track balances melodic tenderness with moments of controlled chaos. There’s a subtle nod to Kanye West’s experimental albums Yeezus and 808s & Heartbreak, but Freemont’s voice remains the anchor—a poetic guide through the disorienting emotional landscape. Each verse feels like a whispered confession, each chorus a cathartic release.
The song’s climactic guitar finale, reminiscent of Smashing Pumpkins’ wall-of-sound approach, elevates clementine skies from a deeply personal song to a shared sonic experience. It’s a moment that’s both overwhelming and comforting, capturing the paradoxical nature of grief: heavy, yet oddly liberating.
Beyond the music, Freemont expands the single into a digital memorial with clementineskies.com, an interactive space where fans can leave personal memories in a virtual night sky. This extension transforms the listening experience into something communal, an act of collective reflection that echoes the song’s themes.
clementine skies is also part of a broader narrative, the ongoing series of singles leading to Freemont’s debut album, The Death of Bobby Freemont. Each release blurs the lines between music, art, and immersive storytelling, revealing an artist unafraid to experiment with both medium and message.
Ultimately, the single cements Bobby Freemont as a multidisciplinary talent redefining indie music. With its layered textures, heartfelt lyricism, and interactive dimension, clementine skies is a poignant reminder that grief, while isolating, can also be profoundly unifying.
Michele Ducci has unveiled the second single, ‘Woman Like You’, from his forthcoming album and animated film ‘Snail in the Clouds’.
‘Woman Like You’ pairs bright distorted electric guitar with an electronic drumbeat, adding in Ducci’s soulful vocals and a catchy uplifting chorus with Letizia Mandoleisi’s sweet vocal harmonies. A vintage organ pedalboard operated by Ducci simultaneously generates chords, bass and rhythm, like a one-man band. Shane Kennedy (Girl in the Year Above) joins in on guitar. Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) recorded and produced the track at his 4am Studios in London.
The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.
The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Mandoleisi, delves further into the realm of planet ‘Snail’:
Says Ducci, “The ark of melodies, after various attempts, finally starts to work and fly in the planet Snail, while the shady Doc. Sub. and Agostos, with their platoon of soldiers made of foggy smoke, spy the miracle, planning to steal the ark for their evil and tyrannical purposes.”
About the track, Michele says, “I wrote this song for my love Letizia. Love seen from the mind is the sound we make. Sound is the love of matter.
We used a Technics synthesizer organ from a flea market. I tried to find a mood that was right for the song and I started using the bass of the pedal board together with the synth and the drums, and it was magical to hear the song reveal itself all coming from a single instrument. Leti was singing with me and we recorded everything live in one shot. Then we made Shane do the guitar flight, as if he came out of the window. The idea was to maintain disproportions, guitar thrust and synth drum thinness a la Haroumi Hosono, so as to create an estrangement, but naturally: it’s about how I listen, with close up something that captures me in its nuance as element of a larger orchestra somewhere. I’m glad we decided in the studio with Simon to use the layers of arrangement as the close-ups in the cinema; they look like strange enlargements that perch on parts of a mutated orchestra. I’m happy to come back with this love song at a time when everything seems to opt, even my labor in managing the flows of selfishness that have poured out on me while doing this album, for the sound of war. I’m here happy to be able to say that the sound of love always wins as did for me. Snail in the clouds is one of the most important works in my life and I am glad to start from pure love for this album that is my son.”
The album and full-length film will be released on the 5th of June on Monotreme Records.
Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.
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