News update: DEEWEE 078: Marie Davidson - Demolition

DEEWEE has released the new single ‘Demolition’ (DEEWEE 078) by Marie Davidson, in anticipation of her debut album ‘City Of Clowns‘ (DEEWEE 080) out on February 28, 2025.

Here’s the full press release:

Today, Marie Davidson shares her latest single “Demolition”. In the guise of your modern day tech company, “Demolition” is Davidson’s rallying call for your personal data around a low-slung electro beat that feels fresh out of the derelict warehouses of 80s Detroit. The Canadian DJ-producer will release her sixth studio album City Of Clowns next month, made in collaboration with Soulwax and Pierre Guerineau (Essaie pas, L’Œil Nu, Feu St-Antoine). Last month, Davidson announced the album with “Sexy Clown”, which i-D called “a sardonic, thumpy techno track” and Pitchfork highlighted in their weekly Selects playlist.

City Of Clowns, marks a return to the club – but not as you know it. The techno thump and scathing spoken-word delivery of Working Class Woman resurface at points, but the pop structures and melodic sensibilities of Renegade Breakdown also remain. It’s a “strange” sonic blend even by Davidson’s own standards. “It’s definitely linking back to what I was doing pre-pandemic, but with a bit of an evolution,” she says. “I didn’t want to just repeat myself.” The sound and the spirit of the album are shaped, too, by the fact that Davidson has a new antagonist. This time it’s not club culture that’s coming for her sense of self, it’s Big Tech.

In summer 2022, when she was in the middle of making the album, Davidson began reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. It’s a bold account of technology as a new form of economic oppression that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, unprecedented in power and free from checks and balances. The book consumed her, becoming a great source of alarm as well as inspiration. “In the time that has passed [since I read it], people have become more aware of how deep this is, but people have capitulated a lot too,” she says. “It’s changing the way we live. It’s literally changing our species – the way we interact with each other, and the way we interact with ourselves.”