april june – lost highway
Madrid-based dream-pop artist april june returns with her heady new single “lost highway.”
The track serves as the latest glimpse into her forthcoming EP afterparty, set for release on October 24 via Nettwerk.
With “lost highway,” april june crafts a surreal meditation on love, memory, and the lingering spirits of yesteryear. Steeped in shadowy nostalgia and cinematic tension, the single evokes the eerie, fractured atmosphere of David Lynch’s Lost Highway. Against a backdrop of hypnotic instrumentation and her ethereal, otherworldly vocals, april june captures the quiet ache of longing and the disorienting beauty of a love that refuses to fade.
The music video for “Lost Highway,” created by creepykelli, mirrors that same haunted nostalgia — grainy glimpses of Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, solitary snapshots of a day in New York where you run from the city only to find yourself in its green shadows. A love letter to escape, memory, and the ghosts we carry.
Speaking about the inspiration behind the track, april june shares: “A hazy, dreamlike ode to a love that lingers like a ghost in the rearview mirror. lost highway channels the eerie, fragmented energy of David Lynch’s film of the same name—blurring past and present, reality and illusion. It’s a song for late-night drives down endless roads, chasing memories that slip through your fingers like smoke. With faded Polaroids, whispered regrets, and the desperate urge to stay in the moment, lost highway is the soundtrack to a love you can’t quite escape. The song moves like headlights cutting through the dark, chasing a feeling you can’t name, a person who’s already gone. It’s about the way love mutates in memory—sometimes tender, sometimes terrifying—leaving you stranded between what was, what could have been, and what never really existed at all.”
Known for her uncanny ability to transform the complexity of human emotion into sonic daydreams, april june’s upcoming EP, afterparty, delves into the bittersweet interplay of longing, heartbreak, and fleeting moments of connection. Each track acts as a suspended memory, offering listeners intimate glimpses into the beautiful chaos of temporary bonds and unspoken feelings. With a sound reminiscent of the melancholic glamour of Lana Del Rey, the ethereal textures of Cocteau Twins, and the emotional vulnerability of The Marías, april june creates a world where nostalgia and romanticism beautifully intertwine.
april june reveals, “This EP is the sound of endings — the end of a relationship, the haze of Madrid nights, the disorientation of getting lost at a party with strangers. It drifts through escapism, alienation, and the unbearable solitude of walking home at 4am under the first light of day, haunted by people who once meant too much. It’s a nod to the myth of closure, an exploration of the way old love lingers like smoke, and the fleeting freedom of late-summer night drives with the windows down.”
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