Urban Cone’s “Sadness Disease” Takes On Depression

Urban Cone Address Impossible Beauty Standards and Depression with Pop Music in New Single
“Sadness Disease”

“An upbeat new single for sad times” – BILLBOARD

“Quirky synth-pop with a stamp of originality that brims with brightness” – VICE/thump

OUT TODAY ON ASTRALWERKS
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Double A-Side Single ft. “Sadness Disease” and the band’s
live studio cover of Porter Robinson’s Lionhearted

Today sees the release of “Sadness Disease” from Swedish quintet Urban Cone. The first single off the band’s forthcoming full-length album due out next year on Astralwerks, “Sadness Disease” sees the band tackle a difficult subject – trying to live up to society’s impossible standards of beauty and perfection – while keeping its signature wit and hook-laden pop sound in tact.

“‘Sadness Disease’ is about the psychological damage of trying to attain the idealized version of beauty and perfection that exists today,” explains Emil Gustafsson. “It’s something that both men and women experience, and it’s not real, it’s not possible. If you look at the single art it’s right there – huge lips, huge eyes, cut and pasted together to create perfection. But what you’re actually left with is not beauty, it’s distortion.”

Bandmate Rasmus Flyckt adds “In Sweden where we come from, its dark so much of the year, cold too. It affects your experience of the world in many ways. We write music in an attempt to create sunshine; it’s a reactionary impulse to create light out of the darkness. If you listen to the lyrics of our music, they’re quite dark. It’s serious music that’s made for dancing.”

In addition to ‘Sadness Disease”, the double-A-side single also features Urban Cone’s live studio cover of Porter Robinson’s Lionhearted (the band did the vocals for Porter’s version of the track).

“Sadness Disease” is the first single off Urban Cone’s forthcoming full-length album – due out on Astralwerks early next year. The song, which premiered on Billboard.com last week, saw VICE/thump premiere the video yesterday.