Duffy x Uhlmann — the Los Angeles instrumental project of Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and Gregory Uhlmann — have returned with Doing It for Me, a kinetic new single built from layers of processed guitar loops and textures. It’s their first new material since 2023’s debut album Doubles, released via Orindal Records, and it arrives on the same label.
Accompanying the track is a visualiser, illustrated by Christina Huang, framing the title as something close to a private mantra between two musicians who aren’t especially bothered with commercial appeal.
The band’s biographer, poet Rosie Stockton, describes the track as a wink at the nature of the collaboration itself: “a palimpsest-like collective of two individuals trying to reach each other.” Stockton notes the song “establishes a rhythmic base that feels like a time-lapse bloom and ends with a swirling gallop,” with bubbling guitar riffs that “pirouette before becoming part of the ensemble of inside jokes and shifting moods.”
Uhlmann’s guitar work has kept him busy in KLOF’s pages recently too — both as a member of SML, and in his solo work — earlier this year we covered Burnt Toast, a single from his Extra Stars album on International Anthem, which name-checked Doubles among a run of releases marking him out as one of instrumental music’s quietly essential figures. In his review of Extra Stars, Thomas Blake concludes: For all of Uhlmann’s evident talent as a guitarist, arranger, composer and improviser, one of his most important skills is the way he lets his musical curiosity work in tandem with his expansive imagination. It makes for a consistently engaging, surprising and often joyful album. A similar dual chemistry is clearly at work here.
Doing It for Me is out now via Bandcamp. Duffy x Uhlmann play their first live date behind the single in August:
Aug 19, 2026 — Pasadena, CA @ Sid the Cat Auditorium (w/ Nina Keith)