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Prima Queen are in a good mood. A few days ahead of their planned Dork show in London, Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden check in mid-celebration: "Today is Kristin's birthday, so we are drinking a margarita on a rooftop." That show, due to take place this evening, has since been postponed to June after Kristin broke her elbow - a fairly dramatic plot twist, all things considered.
If anything, though, it fits neatly into the spirit of 'Crumb', their first release of 2026, a track that leans into chaos and finds the fun in it. "We're trying to enjoy what life is throwing at us and have as much fun as possible," they say. "This song takes a situation which could be perceived as sad and transforms it into something joyful, which shows where we are right now."
Spending time with Prima Queen, a clear pattern emerges. Big feelings are always present, but they rarely sit still for too long before being turned over or laughed through. 'Crumb' is built from one of those feelings: limerence, the dizzying, slightly ridiculous state of being completely fixated on someone. "We weren't drawn to it," they explain. "Sometimes you just end up there, and then you need to write a song or 10 about it."
The idea of the "crumb" itself feels very them. "We were on a night out with some of our girlfriends last year, and everyone was very single, and someone came up with the idea of a crush being like a little crumb - especially if your crush is literally bread-crumbing you - and that the crumb could turn into a loaf of bread or could just get lost, never to be seen again."
Even their answer to whether they have ever been on the giving end of that dynamic carries that same sideways humour: "Well, sometimes the crumb doesn't even know that they're a crumb, and that's the problem with crumbs."
"You could even say that this song is a crumb in itself..."
A similar looseness shapes how the song came together: they flipped their usual process, building the track from the ground up before adding words. "We wanted to try writing in a new way and wrote this song with [Bristol-based singer-songwriter] George Glew," they say. "We created the vibe of the instrumentation before we wrote any lyrics or melody to make it feel really good first, which created something really poppy and fun - we think the core of it is still very us, and we decided to take the lead vocal together rather than just one of us taking a lead."
Both voices move side by side rather than taking turns, reinforcing that conversational quality that carries through both their music and their personalities. A lot of that openness has come from finishing 'The Prize'. With a debut album behind them, the need for every song to carry huge meaning has started to fall away. "We realised that it's important to separate ourselves somewhat from the music," they explain. "It's easy to feel as an artist that everything you put out has to define you as an individual, and we've come to the realisation that it doesn't always have to be that deep. A song can just be a split-second feeling rather than the whole story. We're feeling much freer in the writing process."
That freedom shows up everywhere, including in how casually they hold the future. "We're not really sure yet!" they grin, when asked how the track fits into what is coming next. "You could even say that this song is a crumb in itself, a promise of something that may or may not ever materialise again!" Space is being left for things to unfold, to surprise them. "There's such a build-up to a debut album where you feel that the body of work has to define you as an artist, and having it done now gives us a new sense of freedom and fun that feels really nice."
Away from the studio, that mindset has translated into a slower pace, filling time with things that have nothing to do with release cycles or expectations. "We've been playing chess and tennis and gardening and lots of dancing. Having an intentional break between albums has been really useful for thinking about why we want to make music. Now more than ever, we're seeing the power in making music that is joyful as an antidote to dark times." That sense of joy feels like the throughline. Even when the subject matter drifts into obsession or overthinking, it is handled with a lightness that keeps things moving.
Next up is a very exciting trip to the US. "We're about to record our next album in New York!" they say. "We'll be playing some festivals and getting ready for the new album."
And if ‘Crumb’ says anything about where Prima Queen are at, it is right there in the way they describe it: “‘Crumb’ is about when you are in a state of limerence for someone and all you have of them is a tiny little bread crumb they left you, but you like that crumb a lot. So you cling on to that little freckle of hope for dear life, dreaming that one day it could become a bagel, or a baguette, or a sexy little sourdough boule.”
Slightly ridiculous, and taken just seriously enough to turn into something great - which feels very much like them.
Prima Queen's single 'Crumb' is out now.
