The One Eighties have returned with their groovy new single, “No King” today. The track, which finds the perfect blend between Disco and Americana is a triumphant celebration about the demise of an oppressor. It is taken from The One Eighties’ debut album, coming in 2023 and follows previous single, “Dead Star Light”. Listen to it now below.
As the band explains, “No King” was nearly ditched early in the process. “It was so far afield from the other music we were making that we almost threw it in the trash several times,” explains Daniel Cook. But one night, they started joking around about music video concepts with Fargo and Tarantino-esque themes. So, true to their name, they did a “one-eighty” and decided not only to release the song, but to make an outlandish video where a villain is sacrificed by his own disco-cult minions. The video can be seen now below.
“We scripted the video before the song was even done,” says singer Autumn Brand. “Doing it this way allowed us to finish the song with the video in mind instead of the other way around.” The video was co-directed by Cook, art-directed by Brand, and produced with the support of Myriad, a Raleigh-based video company.