Following "All My Freaks" and "Antarctica", rising Notthingham indie rock outfit Divorce have shared third single "Pill" off their forthcoming debut Drive to Goldenhammer.
It's a song that urgently delineates co-vocalist/guitarist Tiger Cohen-Towell's experience of queer love: a stormy first act, a more contemplative piano-driven mid-point, and a more warm, spry final stride to the endzone. The song showcases Divorce's penchant for both bombast and unguarded emotion.
Watch and listen below:
Cohen-Towell has the following to say about "Pill":
"'Pill' was written on not my piano at not my flat in not my city; Glasgow to be specific. It’s about sexual awakenings and the absolute thrill of feeling seen properly. It’s also about a long-term long-distance relationship that turned my life upside down (and continues to), and my relationship with a new place alongside that. It’s one of the queerest songs on the record, all three sections highlight a different realm of my queer experience. It’s also potentially the most unconventionally arranged song on the record and making it was a very playful and light-hearted process. From the get-go I wanted it to have three very different sections in this song, the rest of the band trusted that instinct and we all threw ourselves into making it work, so it was nice to feel professionally seen whilst making a song about feeling personally seen!"
Drive to Goldenhammer arrives on March 7th via Gravity/Capitol, and you can preorder the record here. Check out all their tour dates below:
03/27 Oxford, UK @ The Bullingdon
03/28 Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
03/29 Birmingham, UK @ The Castle & Falcon
03/31 Belfast, UK @ Ulster Sports Club
04/01 Dublin, IE @ The Workman’s Club
04/02 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
04/03 Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
04/05 Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
04/08 Brighton, UK @ CHALK
04/09 London, UK @ KOKO
04/21 Ghent, BE @ Ringo Music Bar
04/23 Lille, FR @ Aeronef
04/24 Paris, FR @ Hasard Ludique
04/28 Madrid, ES @ El Sol
04/30 Barcelona, ES @ La Nau
05/01 Valencia, ES @ Loco Club
05/03 Annecy, FR @ Brise Glace
05/05 Zürich, CH @ Bogen F
05/06 Munich, DE @ Kranhalle
05/07 Prague, CZ @ Cross Club
05/08 Warsaw, PL @ Bardzo Bardzo
05/10 Berlin, DE @ Badehaus Szimpla
05/11 Oslo, NO @ Belleville
05/12 Stockholm, SE @ Hus7
05/13 Copenhagen, DK @ Ideal Bar
05/15 Hamburg, DE @ Molotow Club
05/15 Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
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