Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
11 July 2024
At work in Brussels, Photo by TUTV
Band: SILVERBACKS
Who: Irish-Belgian guitar team with two albums so far.
Debut Fad (2020) and the follow up Archive Material,
which made me fall in love with this squad.
They just released a brand-new single, named SELLING SHOVELS.
Daniel O’Kelly (frontman): “The idea for these lyrics came from a habit I have – maybe everyone does it? When reading a historical figure’s wikipedia page I often lose interest and so
I jump straight to the “personal life” and “death” part of the page to see how they died and the circumstances they were in at the time. The lyrics flicker between mundane distractions and fairly horrific images of war. Selling Shovels is a reference to “selling shovels during the gold rush.”
Selling Shovels is a riff-rattling jingle/jangle head-twister, spiced with
neurotic vocals, that goes on like forever until it fades out slowly.
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