Alan Duggan-Borges has revived The Null Club for a new release, joining forces with New York artist Miss Grit on the heavy, slow-burning single ‘Overgrown’.
Duggan-Borges, best known as the guitarist in Gilla Band, has kept The Null Club as an off-grid outlet for ideas that don’t fit inside the band’s noise-rock framework.
He last surfaced under the moniker with a series of one-off tracks built around stark electronics and abrasive rhythm work. ‘Overgrown’ pushes deeper into that world, anchored by the 909 kick that sparked the track in the first place.
He says he spent weeks chasing the physical low end of the drum machine, sitting in the studio with the subs shaking the room, letting the pulse shape the rest of the production. Once the instrumental was in place, Miss Grit stepped in with vocals that cut across the beat and give the track its emotional pull.
Miss Grit, whose debut album Follow the Cyborg cemented her as one of the most inventive new voices in art-pop, says she was surprised to be asked to collaborate. The lyrical approach came from the overthinking that hit as soon as she opened the instrumental. Her vocal take leans into that tension, sitting right against the blunt force of Duggan-Borges’ production.
‘Overgrown’ is out now across all platforms.
