Thurston Moore has shared his captivatingly tragic new single ‘The Diver’ from his upcoming album.The latest single features lyrics by Radieux Radio, which describes the life of a diver who eventually succumbs to the wildlife.
The likes of bass player Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine) and percussionist Jem Doulton (Roisin Murphy) play on the song.‘The Diver’ opens with a dreamy guitar and bass riff while Moore sings: “They found your watercolours and your fuel not spent”.
Speaking about the song in a statement, Moore shared: “‘The Diver’ ends the album with the actual story of a diver lost underwater in Lake Geneva while these songs were being written.“The diver was exploring the deep, researching a world at mercy to human disruption, only to be found days later, his life having succumbed to the wild.
The song concludes the album, a repetitive piano figure like a call, a ringing, an alarm of melody.”The song follows the previously released ‘Isadora’, ‘Hypnogram’, ‘Rewilding’, and ‘Sans Limites’ which featured Stereolab’s Lætitia Sadier.
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