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Slowly Slowly release new song ‘Comets & Zombies’

SLOWLY SLOWLY have released a brand new song!

The new song, titled Comets & Zombies, is the brand new single from the Melbourne-based rock band and follows on from the release of their latest studio album, Race Car Blues, which was released back in February.

Frontman Ben Stewart shares that the track was loosely inspired by the story of an acquaintance and his fiancé who passed away from drug addiction issues.

“Despite the self-destructive loop they found themselves in, I could see they maintained an unbreakable adoration for each other,” he says. “I think there is something tragically beautiful about the love between people who are burdened with a self destructive predisposition…I was really inspired not by the circumstance of their passing, but by their beautiful love for each other – it was palpable and timeless in an almost Romeo + Juliet like fashion. It’s yet another song for the pile of ‘love conquers all’.

Listen to Comets & Zombies here: 

Continuing to talk about the new song, Stewart explains that the track title stems from the conversation taking place between the couple throughout the lyrics. “The chorus lines dictate a broken, vague conversation they are having amidst hallucinations as they sit at home (“you kind of look a comet burning out to impress all the stars you hate”), yet it’s interrupted by sweetly close gestures between them, though perhaps incoherent to the outside world (“hey wait, I need to stroke your face…the neighbours hear us as we talk like zombies”), demonstrating how the outside world has such a different perceptions of those moments.”

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James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.