• News

• All

Jun 03, 2026 By Mark Redfern Photography by Janell Shirtcliff

Bedouine (aka Azniv Korkejian) is releasing a new album, Neon Summer Skin, this Friday via Thirty Tigers. Now she has shared its fourth single, “One Right Thing,” via a music video. Dre Babinski directed the video. Watch it below.

Korkejian had this to say about the song in a press release: “‘One Thing Right’ celebrates the concept of chosen family; the ones that help us feel at home even when we’re far from where we started.”

Previously Bedouine shared Neon Summer Skin’s first single, “Long Way to Fall,” via a music video. It was one of our Songs of the Week. Then she shared its second single, “Always on Time,” via a music video, and also announced some new tour dates. “Always on Time” was also one of our Songs of the Week. Then shared its third single, album opener “On My Own,” via a music video.

The album was inspired by a visit Korkejian had with her family in Saudi Arabia.

“For my 20s and much of my 30s, I couldn’t sit still,” Korkejian says in a press release. “I was so curious about my own independence that it just didn’t occur to me for the longest time to mourn the past. But after that trip to Saudi Arabia, I came home and was so devastated. I couldn’t place the feeling immediately, but as I started writing, I realized I was processing that I wasn’t ready to stop being somebody’s kid.”

She adds: “I felt so frustrated about the places that I’m from becoming war torn or difficult to return to. My family has been split apart time and time again, immigrating between Armenia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. I wanted to document and honor my family’s stories.”

Korkejian co-produced most of Neon Summer Skin with her longtime collaborator, Gus Seyffert. She also worked on some tracks with producer Jonathan Rado and Michael and Brian D’Addario of The Lemon Twigs. Inspirations included Todd Rundgren, Karen Carpenter, and Carole King.

Korkejian also returned to two childhood instruments. “My first instrument was piano that I begrudgingly practiced daily due to my mom’s militant approach,” she jokes. “My second instrument was trumpet, which I started in elementary school. For the album, I used a handful of valved brass instruments that I could translate my knowledge of trumpet onto (valved trombone, tuba).”

Neon Summer Skin is Bedouine’s fourth album, the follow-up to 2021’s Waysides and 2019’s Bird Songs of a Killjoy.

Read our 2021 Self-Portrait article with Bedouine.

Read our 2017 interview with Bedouine.

Subscribe to Under the Radar’s print magazine.

Support Under the Radar on Patreon.