- 2025-02-14
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MUSIC
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Cloth Announces New Album “Pink Silence”, Premieres New Song “Golden” on BBC Radio 6
Glasgow-based twin-sibling duo Cloth, consisting of Rachael Swinton (vocals/guitar) and Paul Swinton (guitar), has announced their upcoming third studio album “Pink Silence” will be released on April 25, 2025.
The album is their first body of work in two years since the 2023 album Secret Measure and comprises 10 songs.
From the album, the duo premiered a new song “Golden” along with a music video on BBC Radio 6 Music with Huw Stephens.
The song is the second single off of the album, following “Polaroid” released last November.
The track traces how it feels to grapple with the breakdown of a relationship, and wade through the aftermath.
It was written by Paul Swinton and Rachael Swinton. Produced by Ali Chant. The accompanying video was directed by Luke Bovill.
Paul Swinton said of the song, “I remember writing the main chorus guitar hook of this song, Rachael adding a chord accompaniment, and me saying to her 'this songs needs to sound like Talking Heads!' I think that plan of action maybe got a bit lost along the way, but it's still one of the album's most musically upbeat moments, with a great hi-hat-driven beat in the chorus and a bridge which might be my favourite of any Cloth song.”- He continued, “The song deals with the tough breakdown of a relationship, and the feeling of that loss being so difficult to reconcile with you'd rather have never fallen in love at all. There's a line in the song, 'that scar on my wall, where all of those photographs remembered us falling' which came from me staring at my bedroom wall and seeing the faint outlines - the 'scars' - of where photos of really meaningful memories used to be stuck on. That seemed to me to be a really powerful image, even though, in a sense, there's nothing to look at anymore.”
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The duo said of the album, “This idea of pink silence describes the early morning or later in the evening, when you get this sort of strange ethereal light in the sky. It can mean one of two things; something which feels blissfully serene or something charged with a real sense of foreboding. We loved the idea that something so natural, beautiful and all-pervasive could have such an intense duality to it.” - source : BBC Radio 6
