Seattle-based darkwave band Jupe Jupe is excited to release their new single “Down With The Setting Sun” and its accompanying band-created music video. The track is the latest single to be released from the band’s album King Of Sorrows on No-Count Records on February 27 (pre-order).
“Down With The Setting Sun” marks the fourth single from King Of Sorrows, delivering an aggressive take on a familiar relational truth: people need people, yet people use people. We collide with one another in ways that are both beautiful and painful. Nothing gold can stay, and even the stories told by the victors may fail to bring comfort in the night.
Set in motion by eleven stochastic hits from snare and synth, the song unfolds with a single guitar and bass line weaving continuously through the verses atop tribal drums. A second guitar and layered synths sharpen the forward momentum, pushing the vocal deeper into its darkening narrative. Long hinted at in their work, Jupe Jupe lean fully into a shadowier lineage here, tracing a clear line back to the influence of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen.
As the sun sets in the west, daylight gives way to night, the time when the mind is most free to wander through memory and possibility. Yet the close of day, no matter how potent the metaphor, doesn’t always close the book on where we’ve been or where we’re headed.
The track follows the release of the band’s singles “A Game Of Wait and See,” “Haunting” and “Kill Your Darlings,” which are now streaming on all digital platforms.
Jupe Jupe will be playing on February 4 in Seattle at The Crocodile with She Past Away and announced a record release show on March 7 at Central Saloon. Tickets for both shows are on sale now.
Jupe Jupe blend synthpop, post-punk, new wave, ’70s glam, and ghostly Americana into a signature neo-noir sound, driven by a persistent undercurrent of angst and unease. That tension comes into sharp focus on King of Sorrows, the band’s urgent new full-length.
The album is a darker, leaner, eight-song set shaped by the influence of The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Depeche Mode. Vintage analog synths, low-bit samplers, and Mellotrons collide with tribal drums, driving bass, cutting guitars, mournful saxophone, and a rich baritone vocal grappling with power, ego, and the shadowed corners of the self. Heavy in the low end and built for motion, King of Sorrows delivers dance-ready songs for long nights and lingering ghosts.
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