The Xcerts Drop New Single Ache Featuring Architects' Sam Carter
Thursday, 09 March 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Zak Pinchin
The Xcerts have dropped a new song, Ache.
Following January's single Gimme, the distorted guitar-pop track features long-time friend and Architects frontman Sam Carter contributing clean vocals. Murray Macleod of The Xcerts commented:
"I met Sam on the first day of college, when we were both 17 years old. We connected instantly and have been inseparable ever since. He’s family at this point. Not only has he championed us publicly, but he has been there every step of the way throughout our career with nothing but support. Sam featuring on an Xcerts song is long overdue, but I’m glad we waited until now as Ache is a song about desperately clinging on to hope when your own mental wellbeing is crumbling; when the world at large feels too much, all you need sometimes is a glimmer of beauty to remind you that life is special. Sam has offered up countless glimmers and taught me a lot about letting go. My guy is pure love."
He added: "At the time of writing Ache I was listening to a lot of shoegaze; I really wanted to bring the ‘wall of noise’ chaos and lushness of the genre into a hyper world, alongside the emo influence that has always been prevalent in our music. A lot of the songs that inspired Ache are rooted in mid-tempos so I thought it would be an interesting spin to speed it up. The opening line of the chorus is taken from A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams which I re-read a few times during lockdown, and for whatever reason, I found those words to be profound during an intensely tough time. My (now) girlfriend gave me the book during that period, and she is the ‘beauty’ “In the darkness waving”, so the song and influence mean a great deal to me."
The Xcerts' latest album was 2019's 'Hold On to Your Heart'. In 2021, they put out the EP 'So No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way'. They'll appear at 2000trees in July.
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