System Exclusive - Click (2024)

Click...conceived at maximum velocity across multiple borders, a venn diagram of clanging post-punk thrust, neon lavender synthesiser latticeworks, and Ari's tough yet tender alto reaching for the streetlights. In the past two years System Exclusive have hauled their mini-synth "band in a backpack" to 12 different countries, 20 different US states and all around the UK in desperate search of a good time. They brazenly sought to record this album on the incredibly beautiful but isolated Portuguese island of Saõ Miguel, and experienced a superstition-confirming level of setbacks, equipment breaking, and cosmic nuttiness while tracking. Secret weapon and Bay Area producer extraordinaire K. Dylan Edrich took those island-cursed stems and cultivated them into the sculpture garden of tunes that now lay before you.
Current fancies include:
Shameover maintenance.
The Golden State.
Can you even afford to get out of bed?
Uteri in the USA.
Betrayal.
That syncing feeling.
Butt shakin' vs full body sobs.
Carrying your life on your back.
Getting too little, too damn late.
Click and drag that ass onto the dance floor with these 10 moody bangers, taste-tested and battle bruised on stages across the decaying and decadent West. It's out on Le Cepe Records (worldwide) / Mt St Mtn (US) on May 17th