Song You Need: Ana Roxanne and DJ Python hit the road
“Driving” is the third and final single from the duo’s forthcoming, self-titled debut album as Natural Wonder Beauty Concept.
DJ Python (left) and Ana Roxanne. Photo by Brian Riedel.
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Ana Roxane and DJ Python are almost ready to release their collaborative debut LP. Natural Wonder Beauty Concept (also the name of their newly minted duo) is due out this Friday, July 14 via Mexican Summer. But first, Python and Roxane are premiering the project’s third and final single, “Driving,” and its Brian Riedel-directed music video, with The FADER.
Like the record’s first two pre-release offerings — its title track and “Sword” — “Driving” pairs Python’s jittery drum patterns with Roxanne’s soothing vocals. But where the two artists added equally jittery synths to both of those songs, the new track’s harmonic element operates in a blurrier, more textural element, less essential to pushing the song forward but all the more important for injecting color into a piece that might otherwise exist in grayscale.
The result is, trite as it sounds, the perfect music to accompany the song’s titular act, especially at night. Every artist worth their weight in ink has at least one good driving song on the books. Roxane and Python’s contribution to the genre is less Lynchian, more akin to Fishmans’ turn-of-the-millennium vision of a stressless joy ride, than those of their more contemporary EBM counterparts.
“staring at trees you feel it sink,” Python says of the song in a terse but pithy press statement that gets more ambiguous the longer you think about it.
Watch the music video for “Driving,” exclusively embedded below, and scroll further for Natural Wonder Beauty Concept’s cover art and tracklist, as well as DJ Python and Ana Roxanne’s upcoming tour dates.
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept album art
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept tracklist
1. Fallen Angel
2. Sword
3. III
4. The Veil I
5. Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
6. The Veil II
7. Young Adult Fiction
8. Driving
9. Clear
10. World Freehand Circle Drawing
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept fall 2023 tour dates
September 23 - Philadelphia, PA - Making Time Festival
October 4 - Brussels, BE - Botanique
October 5 - Krakow, PL - Unsound
October 6 - Vienna, AT - Flex
October 8 - London, UK - The Jazz Cafe
October 13 - Bologna, IT - Robot Festival