Following their 2022 debut album Tuesday. Nothing Exists., Grave Goods return with new single, ‘Remains’ out Today, July 22nd.
Addressing the feeling of contemporary existence in the age of uncertainty, it reflects the current zeitgeist and is the band’s first release since becoming a duo.
Grave Goods is Lois Macdonald (Guitar/vox) and Sarah Grimes (drums/vox), and they are based between Manchester and Dublin. Taking influence from early post-punk and minimalist rock, the music of Grave Goods has been described as urgent and demanding, claustrophobic yet spacious, and they’re guaranteed to grab your attention.
Lois says:
“We felt ready to make some new music. We took ourselves away to the studio with the intention of spending some time experimenting but this is the first track we wrote and Julie hit record straight away”
“The lyrics are about the feelings of living in an age of constant change. The total instability that Mark Fisher described in 2009, and trying to navigate this and find peace and love amongst the chaos”
Commenting on the shift in the band’s writing style, Sarah says:
“We explored new ways of playing and changing things up, experimenting with timings, tones and swapping instruments. For ‘Remains’, I was messing with a bass melody which I transferred to the kit, and expanded on by layering bongos and percussive textures on top”
The track was recorded and produced by Julie McLarnon (Thrush Puppies) at Analogue Catalogue, an analogue studio run by Julie in Newry (NI) and mastered by Jamie Hyland @ Caskré.
The single is accompanied by a video directed and designed by Macdonald, with videography by Georgiana Ghetiu:
‘With some of the tracks I get a really strong visual idea often inspired by the lyrics or particular rhythm. It’s usually based around a character, and I love making the outfits and props by hand and seeing the concept come to life’.
The video expands on the song’s themes through surreal, symbolic imagery. Inspired in part by the film, The Seventh Seal along with 1960’s sci-fi, it presents a figure embodying both executioner and jester playing a game of chess.
As the narrative unfolds, more pawns are added to the board and they unite to form a towering king piece, creating an open ended allegory of power, control, and collective resistance.
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