Divorce have shared another single from their upcoming debut album.
A calming blend of folk and country led by woozy guitar work, Antarctica serves as the latest preview of 'Drive To Goldenhammer', due out on March 7 via Gravity/Capitol Records. Co-vocalist and guitarist Felix Mackenzie-Barrow 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 [singer-bassist Tiger Cohen-Towell] and I experienced, encountering a newborn calf in the middle of the road on a late night drive. It felt urgent; the calf’s defenceless was impossible to ignore and we carried it back into the farm. There was a choice there. Did we rescue it from the road where it could have been hit by a human in a car or did we just send it back to be killed by a different human further down the line?
"Neither option feels good or makes any sense to me, but the feeling of its fur covered in afterbirth and the desperate cries of its mother is something I will never forget."
The Nottingham newcomers previously teased 'Drive To Goldenhammer' with the single All My Freaks.
Having recently wrapped up a run of autumn dates across the UK, the band have been confirmed as one of the supporting acts opening for The Maccabees at next year's All Points East concert series at London's Victoria Park on August 24.
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