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Fiddlehead's new album, Death Is Nothing To Us, is just around the corner, and today the post-hardcore outfit have offered up another preview with the single "Sleepyhead."
The Boston band fronted by Have Heart singer Pat Flynn, and also featuring Basement guitarist Alex Henery, have casually become one of the biggest bands in modern hardcore over the last half-decade, and their heart-on-sleeve new cut arrived today (July 11th) accompanied by a music video that stars a man dragging around his pillow as he's consumed by a depressive state. Vocalist Pat Flynn warned that "there's no real great lyrical upside to this song."
"Ultimately, this is a song about tuning out and looking away from the brokenness in one's life on earth in favor of quick comfort," he explained. "It is kind of a conversation between two people or two minds. The so-called 'Sleepyhead' is a woeful person depressed by the way of the world who chooses to deal with the sadness of it all with excessive sleep.
"Somewhere in there, however, is a voice of reason that offers perspective, but to no avail, as the two voices come together in resignation to the weight of the hold that a thick 'bout of deep depression' can lay on someone. I see the song as essential to the arc of the record, which ultimately turned out to be a climb out of such a sad state. So, perhaps that's the upside?"
See the video for "Sleepyhead" above. Death Is Nothing to Us is due out August 18th.
