Arcane Roots announce new EP ‘Landslide’
ARCANE ROOTS have announced a new EP!
The upcoming EP, titled Landslide, is due for release in September and features a brand new single and three worked and reimagined tracks which are taken from the band’s Melancholia Hymns album. Speaking about the upcoming EP, frontman Andrew Groves says, “it’s rare for us to be able to show another side of a story, to re-tell it in a new light or illuminate layers or facets that were previously just nuances. Records can take a great deal of time and require many moving parts to align before release, so when the opportunity arose to record an addendum to Melancholia Hymns, we leapt at the chance. When we finished writing Melancholia Hymns it felt as though we had only just become fluent in a new language, one that had both expanded our vocabulary and our appetite for it’s application. During it’s creation, Melancholia Hymns became so burdened with ideas and desires that we had to exercise a great deal of restraint as to which components we felt should rise to the surface. Understandably, it was then with great satisfaction that we re-opened the doors to those buried elements to reveal a little more of the hard work within the record.”
Alongside the announcement of the new EP, ARCANE ROOTS have released a brand new music video for the title track from the EP, titled Landslide. Speaking about the track, Groves continues, “the idea behind (the single) Landslide arose frequently throughout the Melancholia Hymns writing process, but for a myriad of reasons never quite made it into a song we kept for the record. I’ve always enjoyed the use of juxtaposition and double meaning in our lyrics, to take a word or idea and play with it’s associated vocabulary to blur the lines between the meanings or highlight similarities. Within the song, the landslide is referenced as both a physical entity and the force of nature, questioning the extent of it’s sentience and accountability for it’s actions, while juxtaposing it against the idiom ‘landslide victory’, giving it a political and societal allusion too. Musically, it’s possibly our favourite track to date and after such a difficult learning process during the writing of Melancholia Hymns, it made for a rewarding end to what has been an intense journey of challenge and fulfilment.”
Watch the official music video for Landslide here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming EP. Both of which are available to view below:
Track List:
1. Before Me (Over) feat Emily Denton
2. Matter (Revel)
3. Landslide
4. Off The Floor (Fade)
Landslide is set for release on September 14th via Easy Life Records.
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