Coinciding with their biggest headline shows to date in their twin homes of Manchester and London, Alt/Folk-rock newcomers The Slow Country have shared their debut single ‘Walking Song’.
Entirely self-produced by the band themselves, and featuring artwork by Hugo Winder-Lind (The New Eves), ‘Walking Song’ drifts in some goth-tainted hinterland between Fleetwood Mac and Nick Cave where rushing violins and brooding vocals pit earthly, home-knit aesthetics against the uncanny and mysterious.
Speaking about the track, the band say:
“The song depicts a journey. Its narrator walks disoriented through a dream, visited by memories and self-doubt as they try to find a way home. It is a brooding folk-rock epic full of romantic symbolism and wailing vocals straddling nostalgia and dark futility”
A debut that is on par with many a well established bands efforts. Stunning vocals, marching drums and shimmering melodies from piano, violin and guitar. There is so much going on in this highly impressive single, The Slow Country are a band to get excited about.
Check it out, here
