Lord Jane
Lord Jane Unveils Powerful New Single ‘Kaleidoscopes’
After the success of their debut EP Tulips, Lord Jane returns with their electrifying new single Kaleidoscopes. The track captures the band's raw energy and fearless experimentation, blending hypnotic grooves, soaring vocals, and explosive dynamics.
While Tulips explored personal struggles, Kaleidoscopes turns outward — reflecting on how innocence fades as we face a world marked by injustice and chaos. “It’s a love letter to the simple, colorful view of childhood — and the heartbreak of seeing it slip away,” says frontwoman Clodagh May.
Recorded independently at Analogue Catalogue Recording Studio, with bassist Carl Small handling mixing duties, Kaleidoscopes marks an exciting new chapter for Lord Jane. Their second EP is set to arrive later this year.
Kaleidoscopes is available now on all major streaming platforms.
Death Cab for Cutie - We Laugh Indoors
A band who know how to move seamlessly through controlled tension and cathartic release, which resonates with us and ‘Kaleidoscopes.’ There’s a sense or urgency in it’s driving force of rhythm and emotive delivery in lyricism, contrasted by mechanical sounding guitars, until it eventually spills over into raw energy. Death Cab is a great example of crafting dynamics, not just among instruments on the surface, but the layers beneath the song bed, turning restraint into something explosive, shown on this track in particular.
Foals - Inhaler
This song brings many of us back to the time we first started listening heavily to Foals. Guitars go from percussive dynamically to huge and lush. This style of song immediately perked our ears when we heard it and wanted more. We love this band's approach and growth over the years from their grooviest to their most melancholic and atmospheric work.
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Everything about this song sounds incredible. Direct, yet haunting in its approach. Just as we strive within much of our own material, it makes you want to move, bop your head, while adding flavours that only they could, in its layers, production and dynamics. Yet, it remains deceptively simple on the surface. A masterclass in layering by one of the best in class. Each instrument feeding off the energy of one another, pushing forward in a way that feels inevitable.
Lindsay Chia - Away
This song was a major source of inspiration in its intertwining of simplicity and complication. The guitar riff that plays throughout the song creates a beautiful juxtaposition beside how simple the vocals are. The production is also very simple but so effective.
Paramore - Thick skull
It’s no surprise to anyone that the 5 of us are huge Paramore fans, but this song in particular was a huge source of inspiration for ‘Kaleidoscopes’. The massive sounding chorus and the way the rhythm in the vocal line holds its own amongst the music is something we love and take inspiration from in Paramore’s sound.
Great Grandpa - Dark Green Water
The lyrics in this song are very heavy. It’s about self reflection, and accepting that we aren’t perfect but we’re trying our best. That’s an underlying theme of Kaleidoscopes. Seeing the downfall of our political climate, and not having the control or the power to change it as an individual.
Delta sleep - Slow Burn
Delta sleep is a band we all bonded over when we first started Lord Jane. They’re a shared influence for our sound, and their new album ‘Blue Garden’ was something all 5 of us were listening to and enjoying during the writing and recording of Kaleidoscopes.
And So I Watch You From Afar - Mother Belfast (part II)
Another shared influence of ours, ASIWYFA are a band we all grew up with and have adored since each starting our musical journeys. Their new album ‘Megafauna’ came out around the time that we were in the studio recording ‘Kaleidoscopes’ and was a common topic of conversation between us in our down time. We take a lot of inspiration from the duo guitars, one never out playing the other. We love having two guitars that intertwine themselves together, filling in each other's gaps, rather than having their own separate space.
American Football - Never Meant
The most iconic riff in midwest emo history. This is a song that kind of sets a blueprint of sorts for what we want our guitars to sound like. Pretty. Sad. Intricate.
Adebisi Shank - International Dreambeat
We just think these guys are so interesting and their experimental style, when it comes to production, rhythms, all of it is something we’re aspiring for. We want to push the boundaries of what we create and Adebisi Shank are a band that encapsulates that in everything they do. We were also way too excited when they announced their return!