the Nottingham band announced details of ‘Drive To Goldenhammer’, their first studio album. The 12-track record will be released on March 7, 2025 via Gravity/Capitol and you can pre-order/pre-save it here.Now, they have shared ‘Antarctica’, a warm, woozy, autumnal track based around warped, breezy guitar lines and reflective lyrics from singer Felix Mackenzie-Barrow.
Check it out here:Speaking about the song, Mackenzie-Barrow has said: “I wrote ‘Antarctica’ at the end of a long and deeply important relationship as a way to self-soothe and make sense of the loss I was feeling whilst touring non-stop.
Thinking of the silent indifference of that vast continent at the bottom of the world was and still is something of a meditation for me.
Barry Lopez describes Antarctica as ‘utterly remote, even as you stand in it. The light itself is aloof.’“The song also recounts an event that Tiger [Cohen-Towell, bassist] and I experienced, encountering a newborn calf in the middle of the road on a late night drive.
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