- 2024-11-15
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MUSIC
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Divorce Premieres New Song “Antarctica” on BBC Radio 6
Nottingham-based alt-country band Divorce, consisting of Tiger Cohen-Towell (vocals/bass), Felix Mackenzie-Barrow (vocals/guitar), Adam Peter Smith (guitar/synth) and Kasper Sandstrøm (drums), premiered a new song “Antarctica” on BBC Radio 6 Music The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show.
The song is the second single off of their upcoming debut album “Drive to Goldenhammer”, which is set to be released on March 7, 2025 via Gravity Records and Capitol Records.
The track was written by Adam Peter Smith, Felix Mackenzie-Barrow, Kasper Sandstrøm, and Tiger Cohen-Towell. Produced by Catherine Marks.
Felix Mackenzie-Barrow said of the song, “I wrote ‘Antarctica’ at the end of a long and deeply important relationship as a way to self-soothe and make sense of the loss I was feeling whilst touring non-stop. Thinking of the silent indifference of that vast continent at the bottom of the world was and still is something of a meditation for me. Barry Lopez describes Antarctica as ‘utterly remote, even as you stand in it. The light itself is aloof.’”- He continued, “The song also recounts an event that Tiger and I experienced, encountering a newborn calf in the middle of the road on a late night drive. It felt urgent; the calf’s defenceless was impossible to ignore and we carried it back into the farm. There was a choice there. Did we rescue it from the road where it could have been hit by a human in a car or did we just send it back to be killed by a different human further down the line? Neither option feels good or makes any sense to me, but the feeling of its fur covered in afterbirth and the desperate cries of its mother is something I will never forget.”
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The album comprises 12 songs, which the band recorded at The Calm Farm in North Yorkshire, and then with producer Catherine Marks at Real World Studios.
The band said of the album, “We’re very proud of ‘Drive To Goldenhammer’. We got to make an album the way we wanted to, kept the weird parts in, followed the warmth and didn’t overthink it.”
They added, “This album pays homage to seeking place and home; one of the great human levellers. Much of life feels at odds with this particular need. And to Goldenhammer; you are a reason to keep driving. We will find you again and again!”
Photo by Flower Up Studio - source : BBC Radio 6
