“It is a pathetic thought. We struggle, we rise, we tower in the zenith a brief and gorgeous moment, with the adoring eyes of the nations upon us, then the lights go out, oblivion closes around us, our glory fades and vanishes, a few generations drift by, and naught remains but a mystery and a name.” How will future generations remember Cold, cold heart? What makes a band special, born with sufficient power to hit the “zenith” that Mark Twain spoke of? How can we explain those fleeting, hard to reach and impossible to touch qualities that conjure the devotion and desire surrounding much music in the modern era?
This is a potent force, timed to fire at certain triggers. But do supposed attributes like hype, star quality and fashion actually stand for very much? Does the power lie in pop culture's façade, theatre and artifice or does it rest in the everyday, the world that baffles and nourishes us and those that soundtrack it without gesture or calculation? Listen to Cold, cold heart and you will witness an elemental power and unalloyed, widescreen joy unwilling to be defined by convenient categorisation, pithy soundbites, viral campaigns or sidebar Q&As in free newspapers.
It is this character that informed the band’s 2015 debut, How The Other Half Live And Die, an album so tuned into heartbreak that lost loves were identified by name in the tracklisting and then mourned and celebrated in a collection of ruptured, elegiac and sky-bound instrumentals. How The Other Half Live And Die stands as a shared soundtrack to life. “Anxiety, illness, depression, hope and repair are all things that can be felt by anyone, at any point. We have all had our fair share”, explains Robert. To the fear and beauty in death. To infatuation and devotion. To the band’s personal battles with life's challenges. The most important instrument is the listener’s imagination.
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