Under Sex Week, Brooklyn duo, Pearl Amanda Dickson and Richard Orofinop release new single “Kid Muscle” from their debut self-titled EP on August 30th via Grand Jury.

Within their openhearted track, a mundane pain with hardwon lightness is revealed like childhood meanderings under a newly burdened sky. Sentiments of will we or won’t we and the pressure of growing are enrapt by tendrils of slowcore and sweetly shadowed tendencies. Gentle arrangements search for safety and dissonant whispers are uttered like a mantra or prayer. 

Inhales of “Are we going to make it,” and “Are we going to do it,” are set at ease with soothing exhales of “It’ll be there waiting,” and “I’m lucky for your love.” And while it’s hard to unhear the despair of being young and wanting, Sex Week describes the dichotomy of hope and fear. That to be young or to be human is to also constantly relinquish ourselves to the push and pulls of everyday, as if a muscle. To breathe in and out over and over again to remind ourselves that we are in perpetual motion even though it feels as if we have been circling the same questions since our youth. 

In this battle between happiness and wanting–to live in the moment or prepare for the next–we must always remember what is close. Because, for Sex Week, maybe [the future, the answer, the unknown] doesn’t matter as much when we at least know love and have a hand to hold. 

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