Autograf are kicking off 2023 with another new single taken from their upcoming Affirmations album, out this spring. The new track, “Lie” features up-and-coming singer-songwriter your friend polly, serving as an infectious crossover in the wake of the previous vocal club track, “Vertigo”. Listen to the new song now below.
“It was super catchy originally, but we felt like it needed something extra, something unorthodox,” Autograf explained of the song. “So we did a few little tricks and all of a sudden, it became mega vibey, like cruising around on the east side in our ‘80s DeLorean vibe. We first pitched down her vocal by three semitone and then changed the key of the entire song to match it. Then we had her re-sing all the vocals in the new key, but in her normal pitch. That allowed us to use her regular pitched vocal in the new key together with her pitched-down vocal from the original key. That gave the song a really nice contrast and a call and response with the vocals, and the new key just gave it a super cool, laid back retro vibe we absolutely love! That was the first time we ever did anything like that, so it was a nice experiment!”