{"id":2048021,"date":"2025-09-25T02:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2048021"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:36:18","slug":"the-temper-trap-channel-grief-in-new-single-giving-up-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-temper-trap-channel-grief-in-new-single-giving-up-air\/","title":{"rendered":"The Temper Trap Channel Grief in New Single &#8216;Giving Up Air&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Temper Trap have released new single \u201cGiving Up Air\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The synth-driven song pairs a euphoric chorus with lyrics about the weight of grief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Giving Up Air\u2019 is a very important song for me about a life-changing moment and the unimaginable pain of losing a loved one in tragic circumstances \u2014 from the initial shock to sorrow and then anger, and finding glimmers of hope somewhere in between,\u201d says the band\u2019s frontman Dougy Mandagi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of you may recognise it. It was written for my solo project Bloodmoon but the boys and I started working on it as The Temper Trap and it felt magical, like it had found its true home. Thank you for all your support so far, it means the world to us, and reminds us why we continue to make music.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Giving Up Air\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4foiPmpx9aPyoWs37TRVb1?si=YD_82mJYS_62UzOASGOHFA&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cGiving Up Air\u201d is the quick follow-up to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-temper-trap-return-after-nine-years-81701\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent single \u201cLucky Dimes\u201d<\/a>, which arrived after a near-decade silence from The Temper Trap. Both singles were produced by\u00a0Grammy-nominated hitmaker Styalz Fuego (Troye Sivan, Charli XCX, Khalid).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood to know that 9 years after the last one, we still have something to say,\u201d frontman Dougy Mandagi said in a statement about \u201cLucky Dimes\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s been an absolute pleasure creating this record and we can\u2019t wait to share it with you, not to relive the past but to write the next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The release followed a fresh wave of global love for The Temper Trap\u2019s back catalogue. \u201cSweet Disposition\u201d recently landed at No. 11 in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/triple-j-hottest-100-of-australian-songs-updating-live-80578\/\" target=\"_blank\">triple j\u2019s Hottest 100 Australian Songs<\/a> countdown, bolstered by high-profile remixes from John Summit, Vintage Culture, VXSION, and Lost Frequencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Temper Trap are set to continue on the comeback trail with an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-temper-trap-announce-intimate-australian-tour-tickets-83360\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">intimate tour of Australia\u2019s east coast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll play at The Princess Theatre in Brisbane on Friday, October 24th, Melbourne\u2019s Northcote Theatre on Saturday, October 25th, and Sydney\u2019s Liberty Hall on Sunday, October 26th.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Temper Trap\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/the-temper-trap.lnk.to\/GivingUpAir\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGiving Up Air\u201d<\/a> is out now via Mushroom Music.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Temper Trap have released new single \u201cGiving Up Air\u201d. The synth-driven song pairs a euphoric chorus with lyrics about the weight of grief. \u201c\u2018Giving Up Air\u2019 is a very important song for me about a life-changing moment and the unimaginable pain of losing a loved one in tragic circumstances \u2014 from the initial shock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2048022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[344568,379880],"class_list":["post-2048021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-the-temper-trap","tag-the-temper-trap-single"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Temper-Trap-Channel-Grief-in-New-Single-Giving-Up.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2048022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}