Carla J Easton and Frightened Rabbit's Simon Liddell share new Poster Paints song "Circus Moving On"

Following the release of last month's lead single "Falling Hard", which was teamed with news of Poster Paints' self-titled debut album, the duo, made up of Carla J Easton and Simon Liddell of Frightened Rabbit, have unveiled a second track titled "Circus Moving On".

Carla J Easton says the track is about "Walking the fine line between regret and not caring about choices made. One of those songs. You meet someone and it's doomed to fail but you stretch it out as far as it will go. Needing the darkness in order to shine. The criticism. Being drawn to people that aren't good for you and unable to leave or let go. The fleeting moments where everything seems fine and happy - the excitement and elation of something beginning and trying to hang and hold on to that feeling. Sonically - this is our orchestral blowout on the album."

"We worked remotely with Andrew Jin Chung based in Canada for the beautiful string arrangements that really made the final recording soar," Easton adds. "The initial idea was built around Mellotron sounds after a discussion about how much we both loved the song "All My Happiness Is Gone" by Purple Mountains. Subconsciously that was perhaps a jumping off point for the lyrics and combining the classic sad/happy juxtaposition between words and sound. It's not the Poster Paints sound you might be expecting but it's one of our favourites on the album and is a joy to play live."

On how the collaborative project started, Easton explains, "The project started as an accident before the pandemic kicked off. Si had sent me an instrumental for a piece he had scored for a short film and asked if I could put some vocals on it. I completely misunderstood what he was asking me to do and wrote an entire song to the piece of music and emailed it back to him. When harsh lockdowns kicked in, we both decided we would try and do some more songs like this - it was a way to keep collaborating when you couldn't even go for a walk outside with someone from another household never mind be in a rehearsal room with someone."