Listening to the Cure / Citalopram
Hi all, dreadful-at-keeping-this-website-informed-Tom here.
Hot off the heels of another beautiful FOCUS Wales festival, I'm announcing the release of a new double A-side single in June.
It feels weird calling something a double A-side when we don't really deal in "sides" anymore (although I am debating getting a very limited number of these pressed on 7-inch vinyl). The reason I'm calling it that is because it isn't really an EP but the songs absolutely need to live together in their own isolated release.
In a way they've come completely out of nowhere. In another way I've been working on them for years. Listening to the Cure is based around a line and a piano melody I came up with independently of each other in about 2014. They've now finally been homed in a slightly silly, disjointed, folksy, punky, surprisingly funky song about taking care of your head and not letting your thoughts get the better of you. Citalopram is based around a 5 or 6 year old guitar figure and deals with the pros and cons of said anti-depressant. I was going to call the release something dreadful like The Double-Edged A-Side or The Double A-Sided Sword, but I've just settled on the titles of the two songs. I like the fact that the slash implies that Citalopram is something alternative to the "actual" cure.
Anyway, each song will also be accompanied by a video upon release. I'm really excited to make these because I've got two quite striking ideas which should be interesting to film and edit, and I can't wait to get stuck in. I won't spoil anything, but one involves little more than a pair of feet and the other involves only a face. For now...
The lyrics, chords, melodies and structures have just fallen out in the last few days and I'm taking the opportunity to just swipe at them, record them and put them out, in an act of much-needed spontaneity and speed. The results are sure to be shaky and strange, but I love shaky and strange. I am shaky and strange. The songs are about instability and they kinda reek of that.
Speak soon x TDH