Haute & Freddy, “Touch Touch”

Michelle Buzz and Lance Shipp are two seasoned pop-industry songwriters who teamed up to form the retro art-pop duo Haute & Freddy, and they released their debut album Big Disgrace earlier this year. It's really good! They've steadily accumulated buzz since the LP came out, and now they've followed it by dropping the bouncily operatic new synthpop jam "Touch Touch." Also good! I can honestly picture a situation where this song become their "Good Luck, Babe!," albeit probably on a smaller level. Here's what Buzz says about the track:

I don’t know if it’s more about the empowerment of intimacy or the simplicity of letting community soothe the insanity of life right now, but regardless, it’s shamelessly dramatic. We were writing in Joshua Tree, and Lance was laying down the bass line. I was dancing in the kitchen and just instantly thought, "I think I have a chorus, let’s lay it down." We were both like, "Yep!" The chorus is lusty and fun, while the verses embrace the sensitive side of us underneath all the escapism.

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