Steven Battelle releases new single ‘Apple Tree’

Steven Battelle has released a new song!

The new song, titled Apple Tree, is the first new music from the British musician in two years, and is taken from his upcoming second solo record.

The track was produced by Steven and Dan Weller (ENTER SHIKARI) and was written on trips to Norway, Germany and Switzerland before finally recording in New York with 90% of the music being done by Steven himself in hotel rooms, planes, trains and at his home in the UK.

Speaking about the track, Steven says, “the origin of the recording of the song came from a midnight walk round lake Geneva and just hearing that riff over and over in my mind. When I returned to my hotel I layered up a an offensive amount of guitars and those same guitar are what you hear on the finished record. I remember thinking a lot about the brutality that monotony can bring and so made the choice not to deviate from the relentlessness of the riff. Apple Tree is about not allowing a compromising thought to enter my mind. I sat for hours just staring at an Apple hanging from a tree over a frozen lake. Just watching and thinking about the patience of nature and how long it takes to grow something naturally and which as far as I could tell, would result in the Apple falling, cracking the thin ice and sinking to the bottom of the lake. The integrity of that journey resonated with me in the way I look at my music. I’d rather my music take the risk on the ice than compromise and be picked, chucked in a basket with thousands of identical apples and consumed with little thought.”

Listen to Apple Tree here: 

For more information on Steven Battelle like his official page on Facebook.