The song, produced by long-time collaborator Theo Verney (English Teacher, Lazarus Kane, FUR), is out now through Yala Records and is the first glimpse of their highly anticipated debut album, which will be released in 2022. Get it here.
‘Salt’ finds the band’s taut pin-point rhythms providing the fuel for their energised cocktail of euphoria and exasperation. The track captures a ticking time bomb of suppressed anxieties about the world around us.
Singer Andy Buss opens the track with the lines “I’ve been chasing my own tail, laughing out of every single pore, don’t wanna talk about it…”, Andy explains: “the song came from a series of anxiety dreams containing monotonous behaviours that felt like walls closing in. That sense of chasing my own tail. Jumping into the dark pit of the pandemic only served to heighten this”.
The explosive chorus of ‘Salt’ is aimed at shouting down the gang of emotions that stems from the fake smiles of our feverish world. Andy goes on to explain: “I’d been reading this book called ‘On Solitude’ by Michel De Montaigne and we’d been discussing it on a slow ferry to Dublin. When I wrote ‘Salt’, seeing the world as a feverish dream, the book resonated with my sense that we can cover-up emotions and nervous energy with a veil of pretending to be ok”.
Take a listen below.
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