Golden Apples – Noonday Demon
Golden Apples deliver ‘Noonday Demon’, the lead single from their forthcoming album ‘Shooting Star’, arriving September 19th via Lame-O Records. The Philadelphia shoegaze collective, led by Russell Edling, transforms anxiety into art with a track that captures how paranoia can completely upend your sense of self.
Following 2023’s ‘Bananasugarfire’ and its subsequent remix treatment by collaborators like Dazy and Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, the band refined their emotional turbulence approach. ‘Noonday Demon’ showcases their ability to wrap heavy psychological themes in accessible shoegaze textures, creating space for listeners to process their experiences of identity dissolution. Edling’s songwriting mines the particular horror of simultaneously feeling alienated from yourself and everyone around you.
The production maintains that signature Golden Apples haze while allowing the song’s central tension to breathe. This isn’t shoegaze as escape mechanism but as examination tool – using sonic density to explore rather than obscure the complexities of modern anxiety.
Tracklist:
- Another Grand Offering For The Swine
- Noonday Demon
- Mind
- Ditto
- Freeeee
- Divine Blight
- Happy
- Feliz
- Breeze
- Fantasia
- Song For The Record Exchange
- How Long Must I Stay In This Place
