Chosen by Monk
This Norwich psych rock quintet are currently on a tour to coincide with Independent Venue Week, ahead of the release of their their debut album at the end of April. This is the first taster of said long-player to be offered up for our delectation:
Once the current line-up found its feet as a live ensemble, we realized how well we could arrange different melodies over bass and drums that just ‘run’n’gun’ for the finish line. It was written to be like the older, more sophisticated brother of [previous single] ‘Gallipoli’, explains vocalist and guitarist Fergus Nolan.
For the video, the track demanded something high-pace, high-potency, jagged to the eyes, uncanny. We pitched heists, end-of-days news programs, but there’s something about the intensity of a chase through the unknown that suited Burning. I think people often forget the innate vagueness of dreams when they use dreamlike in describing spaces- that feeling of not being able to track any object permanence in the world around you. The virtual reality needed to feel familiar and dissonant and daft, filled with disconnected architecture and hodgepodge furniture, as if something or someone is trying to trick you into being comfortable; that’s the swallowing hole of money and power that the lyrics explore.
Speaking about the album, which is inspired by and in turn reflects the landscape of their native Norfolk, Nolan adds:
Barns, basements and boxrooms across Norfolk were all utilized to unearth the songs from the soil of our collective minds. We practically lived with each other and buried ourselves in the music for what was almost a whole half year. We would cook for each other, learn from each other and laugh like we never could elsewhere. Even ‘that’ tricky period of cutting songs off went by with all of us in complete faith that the album’s needs seemed greater than our own.
If it wasn’t for the fact that recording had almost become secondary to getting actually quite good at Frisbee, we might have been able to release a double LP.
- ‘Gone Down Meadowland‘ will be released on 25 April via Fuzz Club.
- Floral Image play The Washington in Sheffield tonight (Thursday 30 Janaury), The Garibaldi Hotel in Northampton tomorrow (Friday 31 January), Le Pub in Newport on Saturday (1 February) and The Piper in St Leonards on Sunday (2 February). They then tour again in April/May:
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