Watch: Foreign Diplomats singer Élie Raymond debuts the video for “Honey”

Élie Raymond photo by Maureen Rouge.

Foreign Diplomats singer Élie Raymond has shared another single off his upcoming solo album, Panels, out on November 6 via Bonbonbon Records. “Honey” is a heady track that features Raymond’s layered vocals over a prominent synth beat.

“Honey” is bittersweet,” says Raymond. “It’s a song about manipulation and expectations we have towards others. Throughout the album, I was trying to change the way I was treating my voice to get as far as I could from how I usually approach it with other projects. “Honey” illustrates those experiments a lot. I like albums with one or two more abrasive songs within the rest (think Samurai Sword from the album The Glow, Pt. 2 by The Microphones). “Honey”, with its big “digitized” synths and its deconstructed beat kind of wants to go in that direction. But under the aggressivity, there’s still a pretty, simple song hiding.”

Check out the “Honey” video below, and listen to the album’s first single, “Tintin Panels & Eternal Life,” here. Panels is out on November 6 via Bonbonbon Records.