When it feels such as you’re going below from the entire global’s tension, alt-rockers The Darcys are right here to tug your ‘head above water’ and remind you to take a breath earlier than you get ‘washed away.’
It’s no longer peculiar to really feel such as you’re drowning, bearing in mind the entirety happening for the previous few years. International pandemics, world wars, emerging inflation, stagnant wages, and a relentless flow of dangerous information is sufficient to power an individual down into the intensity. However, so as to add on most sensible of it, the expectancy to by hook or by crook upward push above all of it, and land a place at the Forbes 30 Below 30 whilst blowing up your checking account and follower depend? It’s all an excessive amount of, and The Darcys, the Canadian alt-rock outfit, is right here to commiserate.
“Expectancies at an all-time prime / paintings you over in a cocktail line / touch listing, they were given at all times / in case you have one thing they prefer,” The Darcys – Jason Couse and Wes Marskell – sing of their new music, “Washed Away.” The moody bop, with an earworm of a hook, completely captures the burnout of the present day. When the bridge hits (“I simply need you to understand / that I’ve been there earlier than / and I’ll pull you out”), there’s a second of hope that we will be able to break out the undertow of contemporary lifestyles. Isn’t that a gorgeous concept?
“Washed Away” is set looking to stay your head above water. The expectancy for brand spanking new tune and never-ending content material approach sink or swim for artists like us. When you’re no longer all the time producing, liberating, and rising, it’s simple to really feel such as you’ll temporarily be forgotten. The development is not anything new: after we attempt to meet each and every expectation of our band, our psychological well being suffers, we burn out, and it’s tough to search out our as far back as the skin. We would have liked to confront and recognize this poisonous cycle as a primary step to making improvements to our difficult courting with creativity. Turning those emotions right into a music was once extraordinarily rewarding, and you’ll listen that once the bridge gives the listener somewhat little bit of hope within the type of a lifeline.”
This new music follows “Working For The Hills,” The Darcys’ highest-charting radio unmarried. Inside the previous decade, the JUNO award-nominated workforce has launched 5 albums. The band plans to unlock a brand new EP q4, making sure that fanatics received’t have to attend that lengthy earlier than they get some other serving to hand of The Darcys’ tune. Simply stay swimming till then.
“Washed Away” is out now.