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The follow-up to 'Drive' arrives via Artist Theory with a Yana Van Nuffel video
Nieve Ella has released her new single ‘Bite Back’, a sharp-edged track that turns humiliation, anger and self-preservation into a defiant statement of intent.
Out now via Artist Theory, the song follows recent single ‘Drive’ and sees Ella pushing further into darker territory. Produced by Jamie Rendle and written by Ella alongside Rendle and Finn Marlow, the track was mixed by Alan Moulder and centres on the refrain, “I was tender now I am teeth”.
“A man had his ego hurt because he thought I owed him something, and as men often do when their ego is bruised, he ran to try to embarrass me to save face and protect his image,” Ella says. “‘Bite Back’ is a song about never letting that man win by humiliating you and tarnishing your name to better them. Karma is real and so is everything that I'm saying in this song.”
The song arrives alongside a video directed by Yana Van Nuffel and commissioned by It Girl. The visual explores themes of rage, desire, femininity and consumption, extending the emotional world of the track into surreal and cinematic territory.
‘Bite Back’ follows a busy period for Ella, who recently played a run of intimate UK club shows after the release of her ‘Watch It Ache and Bleed’ EP. She is set to appear at BLUDFEST, BST Hyde Park and Lollapalooza Berlin this summer.
The album is the quartet's first full-length release in two years.
