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Wild Arrows' "Loving The Void"

Posted by Loren on May 10, 2022

Wild Arrows' "Loving The Void"
photo by Scott Wilkinson

Wild Arrows has shared news of a new record coming up, with a release show at Baby's All Right on June 30 in Brooklyn, NY.

Loving The Void is the band's latest single.

While songwriter Mike Law is an experienced musician, playing with the likes of EUCLID and New Idea Society, the single brings some firsts.

Law explains:

This is one of the only songs that I've ever recorded where I kept the first vocal take I did, kind of as I wrote it in the moment. It was a bit like automatic writing actually. I had the chorus in my head for a few years but the track was just a drum beat and a bass line with no verses. It's the only almost pop song on the new album. A couple trusted musician friends and the singer of an iconic 80s and 90s band told me this was a REALLY good one so I'm going to trust them. Sometimes the song sounds dumb to me but what do I know? It's a chaotic track about being a person who lives a lot of their life at night and on tour. I hate going to sleep and I lived much of my life going to bed at 4am so a lot of those distortions are juxtaposed in Crowded House. I even tried to paraphrase a Cure lyric impromptu from "Let's Go To Bed" while recording that original first vocal take but I gave up mid phrase and left it in the song. 

Watch the video here:

Wild Arrows' "Loving The Void"
photo by Scott Wilkinson

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