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

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.