Big Takeover is pleased to host the premiere of the music video for kicky single “Collette,” from Bits in Pockets.

The track officially released on February 23rd and is off the Turkish alternative rock band’s forthcoming EP, The Bits, to be released via MMY Records.

Bits in Pockets is composed of high school friends – vocalist Emre Arduman, guitarist Derin Dönmez, bassist Ata Tuna, and drummer Tibet Ahunbay. The quartet became an international and often online phenomenon, with members contributing from the UK and Canada while at college, between spells of feverish face-to-face creativity back in Istanbul.

“Collette” has a frantic, yet carefully crafted pace – its deft dynamics and restive beat straining at the shackles of a brief, frustrating lockdown relationship. Dönmez’ guitar chimes in and around burbling bass as rhythmic cascades thunder past like a missed last train.

The timely track is described by songwriter Arduman as, “a pandemic story wrapped in a relationship story. I started dating a girl in the middle of the pandemic and surely it was bad for me.”

“It felt a bit off-beat at first – the conversations were not quite there in terms of the flow. I was doing all the events that I wanted to participate in: going to movies, car rides, sitting together on a roof with the view of the bosphorus, yet it felt wrong to be there.”

“She left me more hopeless in the pursuit of raw emotion. I could never quite tell what she was thinking, what she was feeling. The song is the honesty I dared not to confront of pandemic frustration wrapped in a relationship.”

The Bits is due April 29th via MMY Records. Pre-Order the EP at Bandcamp

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