For Blusher, getting through heartbreak (together) is a piece of cake. On Thursday, the Australian trio released their high-energy EP, Racer, and debuted the visualizer for their single “Don’t Look at Me Like That” with Rolling Stone.
“Racer is like your three best friends showing up at your door and dragging you out for a big night,” the group tells Rolling Stone. “We wrote these six songs to be your soundtrack for starting the dance floor, and turning heartbreak into a team sport.”
They add: “It’s about the friends who make you braver, the late nights that change everything, and about not being too cool to have fun.”
Members Lauren Coutts, Miranda Ward, and Jade Ingvarson-Favretto describe “Don’t Look at Me Like That” as the EP’s “anti-love song,” with both flirty and platonic vibes, and inspired by the “messy friendships” that sometimes have a little sexual tension vibe to them.
“Having a crush takes so much optimism and determination … but so does turning someone down when the feelings aren’t mutual,” the band says.
Blusher wrote “Don’t Look at Me Like That” with “absolute idol” Alisa Xayalith of the Naked and Famous on Coutts’ birthday. “We all grew up obsessed with their music, so it feels really special that a bit of that nostalgia is baked into this track,” the band says.
The video came from a “chaotic night out at a race in Melbourne,” they explain. “This song is the part of the night when you’re driving home, briefing with your friends about that will-they-won’t-they situationship you’re in, and scrutinizing it together in the most fun way possible.”
The trio will celebrate their new Racer EP with a brief tour in the U.S. later this fall, including shows in New York City, Seattle, Boston, and Los Angeles.
