An artist with a striking point of view (sonically and visually), Jerkcurb returns with his first new music in 6 years - the fantastically sentimental ‘Larchmont’. Opening tenderly to gentle guitar work and tastefully croony vocals, respectful drums keep the lilting components in place as the piece builds gradually. The South Londoner explains: “Every summer, when I was I child, I would visit my family in Larchmont, a typical suburban neighbourhood in New York with picket fences and perfect lawns. I wrote Larchmont during sleepless nights over the blur of the Covid 19 pandemic. I was unsettled, a new sense of dread in the silence and disorientating abundance of time. In the day, I learnt bossanova songs to simulate calm, a hot sun somewhere far away. But by nighttime these happy chords had twisted into darker shapes that became Larchmont. The lyrics describe a dialogue between a couple, caught up in a cycle of fear and bliss. Larchmont, the place where I spent my childhood vacations, could represent a future sanctuary or just an escape to a memory of summer.” Arriving alongside an expectedly excellent video, shot in timeless black and white, the return of Jerkcurb will be celebrated with a live performance at EartH in Hackney on the 11th of February. -Holly Mullineaux