Furniture is the new single from NYC-based musician Maude Latour.
Latour exhibits her multi-cultural background through her music... Whilst she considers her self a real New Yorker, she grew up spending time in Sweden, London, New York and Hong Kong. In high school, Maude started to experiment with poetry and stories, before moving to work in melody and lyrics.
Last year saw Maude release her debut EP, entitled Starsick, and with that came a significant fan base and popularity on streaming services. Now she has returned with her new single, Furniture.
With a fun, grunge-y, lo-fi pop feel, the production on Furniture captures the feeling of a new breed of alt-pop. A retro chip tune bassline and simple drum track meld with scratchy guitars and Maude’s energetic vocals to give the track an accessibly fun-yet-cool vibe.
The song itself is deeply personal to Maude, as she described:
”This song actually saved me. I didn't think my heart could actually break, but it turns out I'm human like everyone else. I wrote this song at the lowest moment of my break-up, and the power and healing I had after creating it started me on a road to finding myself again.
“But the song became itself when it became the anthem that I needed. I remember waiting outside on a cold November morning to accidentally run into my ex. I was blasting this song, and suddenly I felt invincible. He and I had a conversation, we both cried, and he started to walk away. I was sitting on the steps to the library at Columbia University, watching him look back once more. But for the first time I wasn't crushed as he walked away. I had a secret. I had this song.”
Both the song and the video capture the sense of chaotic emotion Furniture depicts, and the video actually features people staring as themselves, including Maude’s ex’s friends:
“The Furniture video was made on one of the last days before Corona [the virus] ended school. We spent an entire day with so many of my close friends, and we had the literal best time... This all takes place in my dorm, with my suitemates, the kids who live on my floor, with a $0 budget... Everyone's reading my philosophy books from my shelf (read the titles, they all have some meaning). The hand sanitizer, my friends' relationship, my friends who are mentioned in the songs, my ex's friends (such troopers for participating, respect). The coolest thing is that everyone is playing themself. I will never be able to separate the joy of making this video from the video itself.”
Check out the video to Furniture below: