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What do you get when two of the Inner West’s finest join forces?

You get Green Screen. It’s the latest project from Zoe Catterall and Hewett Cook of Sydney outfits The Buoys and Baby Beef, respectively, which was born out of a desire to create “a vehicle to express whatever we want, however we want to.” Their debut single ‘I Am Boring’, which premiered on FBi last week, is a playful bop that sounds like the lovechild Tom Tom Club and Depeche Mode.

Written in 2020, amidst the lockdowns and partial shutdown of the live music industry, the track lyrically looks at that time in our lives when there was simply nothing to do. “‘I Am Boring’ contemplates a simpler time,” Hew and Zoe say. “We wanted to create an energy that matched a care-free summer of yesteryear, because we need that right now, a lot of people do.”

The accompanying visuals, directed by Isabella Sanasi, sees the ever-enigmatic Hew and the infectiously spirited Zoe do their thangs in front of an array of backgrounds achieved via the meta endeavour of putting Green Screen in front of a green screen. “In the spirit of the Green Screen project the clip was made joyously and instinctively,” Sanasi says. “The video riffs on the beaming and simple optimism in the song but also dives into the whirring confusion of existing between the IRL, the doubts and fantasies of our minds and tunnel of digital space that so many of us have lived our lives through in recent times.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O6L2UXv1_Y

To celebrate the release of ‘I Am Boring’, Green Screen will be taking the stage at Hiway Bar in Enmore April 29th (info here). Make sure you pack your dancing shoes! Follow them on Instagram here.