Back in college, Danny Parker (a.k.a. the L.A. based dance-punk act Model Child) experienced a bad acid trip that eventually saved his life. “I had a full break with reality,” he remembers now, describing the ordeal, which took place at a music festival in Florida. “I sort of didn’t come out of the trip.”

That process began in his early twenties, when he was recruited by a former bandmate to contribute as a songwriter for hire in the pop-music realm. Parker studied the art of the Top 40, learning to be a “capital-S songwriter,” and picked it up quickly, as he always has. That led to a hit (which led to another hit, and another after that. Soon, Parker became an in-demand industry collaborator, co-writing songs from some of the biggest names in music, from Shawn Mendes (Stitches) to Jessie Ware (What’s Your Pleasure?) to Pussy Riot (Plaything).

Get There! was released on 28th June, you'll find Overdrive's videoclip hereunder . Parker says his work in that world “sharpened my tools,” as he put it, but it’s a different mindset from what Model Child is, which is an embrace of his “relationship to music outside of this goal of writing a hit song.” Not that earworm Model Child tracks like My Queer Teenage Anthem and Drain Me, the latter from the 2020 debut Dropout, aren’t indie hits of their own, or that music from Get There! isn’t certifiably club-ready. It’s just that Model Child is all of that, from the mainstream to the obscure, together.

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