Superorganism tap Stephen Malkmus and Dylan Cartlidge for “It’s Raining”

It’s the second single from Superorganism’s sophomore LP, World Wide Pop, out July 15 via Domino.

March 30, 2022
Superorganism tap Stephen Malkmus and Dylan Cartlidge for “It’s Raining” Photo by Jack Bridgland.  

On an aptly stormy day in their native London, Superorganism have shared "It's Raining," an ironically upbeat track that follows "Teenager" as the second single from the band's sophomore album World Wide Pop, out July 15 via Domino. The new song features a characteristically zany verse from Redcar, UK rapper Dylan Cartlidge, some bizarrely nursery-rapped bars from Pavement's Stephen Malkmus, and, strangest of all, an impossibly upbeat sample of Scott Walker's "It's Raining Today."

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“We've been enormous fans of Stephen Malkmus forever, and we loved the idea of combining Malkmus and Scott Walker into a strange, almost broken-sounding hip-hop track," Superorganism write. "We'd done a remix for Dylan Cartlidge and absolutely loved his flow; we asked him if he'd like to try a verse and he fit so naturally. With Dylan being from the North of England and Stephen in Portland, the rain theme is all the more fitting for them too.”

The track comes with an AEVA-directed, animated music video with illustrations by Risa Kazama, which follows a happy raindrop as it falls from a cloud and then slides along the side windows of a bullet train, through which all the members of Superorganism, Malkmus, and Cartlidge appear one by one.

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Watch it and view Superorganism's upcoming tour dates below.

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Superorganism fall 2022 tour

9/3 – Doornroosje – Nijmegen, NL
Sept 4th – Bitterzoet – Amsterdam, NL
9/5 – Nochtspeicher – Hamburg, DE
9/6 – Hole 44 – Berlin, DE
9/7 – Praga Centrum – Warsaw, PL
9/9 – Lucerna Music Bar – Prague, CZ
9/10 – DasWERK – Vienna, AT
9/12– Club Volta – Cologne, DE
9/13 – Rotonde @ Botanique – Brussels, BE
9/14 – La Trabendo – Paris, FR
9/16 – Chalk – Brighton, UK
9/17 – Belgrave Music Hall – Leeds, UK
9/18 – SWG3 Warehouse – Glasgow, UK
9/20 – Gorilla – Manchester, UK
9/21 – Scala – London, UK

9/27 – Portland House of Music – Portland, ME
9/29 – Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY
9/30 – Space Ballroom – Hamden, CT
10/1 – Paradise Rock Club – Boston, MA
10/2 – L'Astral – Montreal, QC
10/3 – Axis – Toronto, ON
10/5 – Skully's – Columbus, OH
10/7 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL
10/8 – Majestic Theatre – Madison, WI
10/9 – Varsity Theater – Minneapolis, MN
10/11 – Meow Wolf – Denver, CO
10/12 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
10/14 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
10/15 – Neumos – Seattle, WA
10/16 – Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC
10/19 – The Ritz – San Jose, CA
10/20 – August Hall – San Francisco, CA
10/21 – The Regent, Los Angeles, CA
10/22 – The Music Box – San Diego, CA
10/24 – Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ
10/25 – Meow Wolf – Santa Fe, NM
10/26 – Scoot Inn – Austin, TX
10/28 – Club Dada – Dallas, TX
10/29 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
11/1 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA
11/2 – Basement East – Nashville, TN
11/3 – Motorco Music Hall – Durham, NC
11/3 – 930 Club, Washington, DC
11/5 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA

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Superorganism tap Stephen Malkmus and Dylan Cartlidge for “It’s Raining”