Tusks unveils new single, "Body Ache"

The accompanying video to "Body Ache" was directed by Jonathan Stow at the Rivoli Ballroom and features dancer Moses Ward. It continues from the first part of her video series, "Strangers".

"This track was written really quickly - probably the quickest on the album," Tusks explains. "I’d just got home from being out with friends, and my partner was later than he said he was going to be coming home, so I started jamming around with a track about him and it ended up being Body Ache. It just came together super quick which was a nice change from the rest of the album - we even ended up using the demo vocals recorded in my living room. It was nice to allow myself to move into a more upbeat kind of song and let myself be inspired by more RnB - I was listening to a lot of Eliza at the time which I definitely think inspired this one.”

“A lot of this album was inspired by contrasting experiences” Underhill explains, “Processing a breakup and then falling in love again. Being constantly surrounded by people in lockdown, then suddenly being completely alone and free. Being in the city vs being in nature. We wanted to echo these contrasts in the production of the music so constantly moved between lo-fi and hi-fi production - sampling our own drum beats, recording them through compressed tin can mics and processing through loads of analogue gear and a 404 then switching to cleaner, larger sounding kits achieved by recording with mics in back rooms and the ceiling to give the impression of space."

The forthcoming release from Tusks follows two revered albums, Dissolve, which was released in 2017 and 2019's Avalanche.