2nd August 2024
Public Service Broadcasting today release their latest single, “The South Atlantic”, featuring This Is The Kit. The track is the second taken from their upcoming fifth studio album, The Last Flight, set for release on 4 October 2024 via SO Recordings. (Pre-order/pre-save here).
Featuring a warm, orchestral backing atop the sweetly ominous narrative of Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), “The South Atlantic” is an ode to Amelia Earhart’s determination and passion in her fateful final flight, crying out to “Try to aim, higher, further, slower.” My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel adds beautiful layers of pedal steel guitar and e-bow to an already rich palette of sounds.
Speaking about the track, J. Willgoose, Esq. said “The song tells the story of Earhart’s third successful transatlantic flight, and her first south of the Equator. I wanted to write something that’d sound good to listen to while looking out of an aeroplane window, something calm and serene but with a sense of forward motion. Kate, Carl and the strings players from the London Contemporary Orchestra really took this track somewhere else - I love what they all brought to it.”
“The South Atlantic” follows the release of the album's first single, “Electra”, a song of soaring machine-funk and a paean to Earhart’s aircraft.
Listen to “The South Atlantic” here, and watch the accompanying video below.
The Last Flight concerns the final voyage of America’s pioneering female “aviatrix” Amelia Earhart. In 1922, aged just 25, Earhart flew higher than any woman before her, and in the years that followed she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, setting multiple speed and distance records. In 1937 she announced that she would circumnavigate the globe in her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra aircraft. She crossed the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. She left Papua New Guinea to fly to Howland Island in the Central Pacific but never made it, instead ascending to the level of myth reserved for the bravest adventurers.
Public Service Broadcasting
The Last Flight
4 October 2024
SO Recordings
Pre-order/pre-save here
Tracklisting:
I Was Always Dreaming
Towards The Dawn
The Fun Of It (ft. Andreya Casablanca)
The South Atlantic (ft. This Is The Kit)
Electra
Arabian Flight
Monsoons
A Different Kind Of Love (ft. EERA)
Howland
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