Ahead of A Nationwide Tour, Indie Pop Musos December Streets Release the First Single ‘Same Faces’ Off Their Eagerly Anticipated Upcoming Album

SummerRaine January 28, 2022

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2022 has kicked off with a bang for the South African indie-pop group December Streets as they team up with national radio station 5FM for a nationwide tour called ‘Unlocking Summer’’. The tour began with a live stream from SABC’s studios in Cape Town on the 31st of December 2021, showcasing the new singles off their highly-anticipated album set to launch in March 2022.

Together with 5FM, December Streets also ran a campaign to discover and give a platform to emerging talent in South Africa after a restrictive 2 years of COVID 19.

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The winners of this campaign from each major city in South Africa had the opportunity to join December Streets in the online 6 hour new Year live-stream event and will join the lineup on their nationwide tour in Feb 2022. The campaign reached thousands of viewers online with sold-out venues set for the tour early this year.

This all follows the success of the band’s release ‘Last Forever’ which topped charts on key stations across the country, landing notorious playlists around the globe such as n’ Goede Bui (NL), Booster (JPN), Stay Tuned!, Weekly Buzz (Tokyo) & many more, amassing hundreds of thousands of streams for the single.

This year, the band prepared to release the first single ‘Same Faces’ off their upcoming album set to release in March 2022. The band will be taking the success of their previous singles and NYE show on the road with a nationwide album launch tour in February 2022.

The band attributes the ‘Same Faces’ creation to a common testing ground many relationships were forced to endure during the pandemic – Lockdown. With the reality of relationships of all walks of life being put to the ultimate stress test through long periods of time in confined spaces – the track talks to the immanent nature of blending into one life, one character and one face. . . for better or worse.

‘Lockdown over the past 2 years gave us all time to reflect on ourselves and the relationships we hold dear to us. For most of us locked in with a partner, friend or family member, that relationship truly got put to the test! This period of time is when we really saw the good and bad, maniacal and sane, patient and impatient side of the people we were locked in with. I poured myself into writing and felt it relevant to write about this topic. Many of my friend’s relationships did not make it through lockdown, but those that did I think will stand the test of time. This period was a wake-up call for many of us.’ says Tristan Coetzee, band frontman.

Digging into the meaning of the song, the lyrics speak to monotony, repetition and the slow eradication of a relationship. To the point where you do not recognise the person you once knew. You barely even recognise yourself. Your faces become the same repetitive face, in a spiralling fall to the inevitable.

‘While the theme of the song speaks to a fairly gloomy situation, it is in fact a call for help at the point of realisation that something is not clicking anymore. A turning point before things get too bad. A way out of a repetitive, toxic cycle – to live again!’ says Matthew Tager, band vocalist.

As the song thunders through, we hear in the verse how the song takes a turn for the better – calling out to a need for change. A burst of energy and hunger for a life we all once knew and loved.

‘I often wonder what global superstars such as One Republic or Coldplay do when they realise they’ve written to their best potential and cooked up a true hit…I really believe we’ve done that with this one. Same Faces is going to be a game-changer for us, I cannot wait for our fans and community to hear the magic we’ve worked into this song. It’s incredibly relatable to most of the world over the last two years and I mean, the music BANGS!’, says band vocalist, Dane Steinhobel.