About House Arrest

The German-American electro-pop duo shared the background behind the track’s origin exclusively to NME. When the group were in Australia for Groovin The Moo festival, member Sophie Hawley-Weld broke her leg onstage, forcing the duo to cut their tour short to fly home where Hawley-Weld was stuck inside resting. This is the period when she wrote the skeleton for ‘House Arrest’, a track about being locked inside. Sofi Tukker went on to explain they finished the original idea with producer Gorgon City, and said putting out a song about being locked inside while the world actually is is “kind of a happy accident”. Despite the two groups being at distance and isolating from their respective homes, they’ve been able to perform the song during live DJ sets via the band’s Instagram, Facebook and Twitch channels. “We couldn’t be more excited to put this into the world,” the group said in a press statement.

Sofi Tukker (stylized in all caps) is an American musical duo based in New York consisting of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern. They are best known for their songs "Drinkee", "Best Friend", and "Purple Hat". "Best Friend" was featured in a commercial during Apple's unveiling of the iPhone X, whilst "Drinkee" was nominated for a Grammy at the 2017 Grammy Awards. In December 2018, their album Treehouse was nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album. Hawley-Weld was born on May 17, 1992 in Frankfurt, Germany, and grew up in rural Canada. She then attended United World College of the Adriatic, a UWC in Duino, Italy. Halpern was born on December 26, 1989 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Growing up, he was a high level basketball player who was recruited by major division 1 basketball schools, ending up at Brown University where he played three years and was the captain for 1 year. Due to an illness, he changed his career, started djing and fell in love with making music.