“Science of the Heart is drowning in nostalgia, and is very reminiscent of older ’80s synth pop, which, to me, screams sentimentality. Everything about the track is quite unique and comforting, and all in all, Science of the Heart is an incredible debut single for Go Bury Your Monsters.” – TEMPO Magazine
“If I had to describe the experience of ‘Science Of The Heart’, I’d say it’s like travelling across a kaleidoscopic sonic river surrounded by glittering fairies, a warm feeling in your chest, a grin on your face, and the all-around languid tranquility of an 80s indie-pop song.” – The Other Side Reviews
Go Bury Your Monsters (GBYM) is the realisation of a project that grew from the scatterings and seeds of ideas lying around on Shayne Byrne’s (Owner, Ragged Company Recordings) hard drive.
On there, were the dozens of demos; riffs, 30 second clips, synth daydreams, and sometimes only 12 bars of music that Darragh J. Glennon, Shayne Byrne, Stephen Young and Brian Murphy took and transformed into the melodies and music that is now Body Language; the four-song EP that owes as much to 1980s Peter Gabriel as it does to The War On Drugs.
Working remotely – aside from Byrne, at his studio, RaggedSound, in County Carlow – Young (living in Italy), Murphy (living in Westmeath) and Glennon (living in Spain), the four musicians took the elements they found and spent 18 months delving into the original material to create compositions that pushed their own boundaries and yet, grasped at something that was, to their ears, a collage of retro and contemporary.
Working across country and county borders, the four made use of modern technology: Byrne (Producer, drums, keyboards, guitars) would usually send the demos on to Young (Vocalist), who would then arrange the songs at his home studio, often in tandem with Byrne. Young brought up the theme of using the human body as a theme for the EP, each song using a bodily organ figuratively but often metaphorically in the lyrics.
From this, the band expounded on the theme to create a soundscape that pulsed and breathed even more life into the songs: Glennon (Bass – from his home studio in Spain) provided the bedrock for Murphy (Guitars – at his home studio in Mullingar) along with Byrne on drums, keyboards and synthesizers. Together the four pieced together what would become Body Language, the first EP from Go Bury Your Monsters. From their first EP, comes ‘In The Belly Of The Beast Of Love’, the second single to be taken from the upcoming EP.
‘In The Belly Of The Beast Of Love’ releases everywhere on May 2nd.
Heartened by the success of their first single, Go Bury Your Monsters (GBYM) are hungry for more, as they unleash their second single — In The Belly Of The Beast Of Love — from their now highly anticipated EP, Body Language.
The pan-European crew of wordsmiths and wanderers harnessed the power of technology to record their upcoming EP remotely. And though separated by county and country lines, with In The Belly Of The Beast Of Love, GBYM have mustered up a serving of harmony-sweetened alternative-rock.
It’s yet another sumptuous taste of Go Bury Your Monsters‘ upcoming EP, Body Language.
The overarching theme of Body Language is to use the human body and it’s organs to connect songs to the individual organs and the purpose they serve, sometimes physically, but very often, metaphorically. In The Belly Of The Beast Of Love, the subject of the song is sinking further down through the oesophagus towards the stomach — and its burning stomach acid — prostrate in a lovesick malaise after the “Beast” that love can be, has wounded him. But, he fights and claws his way back out and into the world where a fresh start awaits.
Lyricist and vocalist, Stephen Young said: “This song was a lot of fun to write! Tying it into the Body Language theme while also making it a break up song was a little challenge, but once everything clicked, I wrote the final draft in 10 minutes, then re-read the lyrics and laughed.”
Producer, Keys player and Drummer Shayne Byrne says “after we got the core sound together on ‘Science of the Heart’ I knew we had something really cool, but when we got the elements together for ‘Belly of the Beast’ I knew we collectively had something special for this project, working with everyone in other projects over the years, this project felt like something new and fresh we hadn’t tried before as musicians.”