London indie rock/prog rock/post punk/psych band
Social Contract have dropped for their new single "
Waterside Mews".
The song is taken from their forthcoming second EP 'Buzzards Wake', which will be available on March 12th through Pantherburn Records.
Written off the back of their 3 support slots on Do Nothing’s UK tour at the end of 2019, the track, written from the imagined perspective of a dogwalker who stumbles upon a dead body tied to a tree in frontman Josh Eggerton’s sleepy Schroptshire hometown, kicks off with their usual abrasive yet melodic guitar sounds created by Eggerton and Scott Roach (touring member of Blaenavon and Happyness), which soar over a driving bassline and anchored in by tight drums.
Eggerton says of the track: "When I was younger I remember being horrified of what had happened - a man found naked, tied to a tree, it was like something out of movie, and something that doesn’t happen often in sleepy Shropshire. Obviously it was all over local news for quite some time. I’d often have nightmares of being the person to discover this figure in the morning fog, tied to the tree completely lifeless. I decided to write the lyrics through the eyes of whoever first discovered him and how both they and the local press would have tried to digest what had happened.
For composition, we’d only run through that closing section a few times before the studio. Nothing was cemented. I told the guys to forget what they were doing and just focus on notation. From then on it was free reign and everyone could perform whatever they felt was necessary for that moment. I think we’ve figured out how to build and release tension more effectively to prod at emotions."
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