The Clockworks have shared a brand new track known as ‘Misplaced In The Second’ as a part of Abbey Highway Studios’ ‘Lock-In’ collection – test it out beneath now.
The Galway band, who’re signed to Alan McGee’s It’s Creation Child label, launched their debut single ‘Payments And Capsules’ in 2019, following it with quite a few singles since. Their newest launch, ‘Blood On The Thoughts’, arrived earlier this month.
‘Misplaced In The Second’ was recorded within the spur-of-the-moment on the finish of The Clockworks’ ‘Lock-In’ session at Abbey Highway Studios. “‘Misplaced In The Second’ was initially written on piano however was all the time imagined as a full band manufacturing,” singer James McGregor defined in a press launch.
“We have been in Abbey Highway recording one other track and I sat on the grand piano in Studio Three and performed this for the band. Over the next weeks, we began work on a band model of the track. Once we returned to Abbey Highway on the tail finish of the night time, somebody had the thought to arrange the piano and a microphone and do a uncooked reside recording to seize the essence of the monitor.”
He continued: “This track was initially three totally different tracks. I realised that thematically it felt just like the three songs have been attempting to get at one thing comparable and even the chord sequences for each have been surprisingly shut. I put the songs collectively and it felt prefer it made sense. I just like the irony of sincerely attempting to make a second out of questioning if we’ve misplaced the flexibility to make moments.
“I typically discover that the extra painful the lyrics are usually, the extra playful they are often too. It’s as if one permits the opposite. I feel that affect comes from exhibits like Fleabag or The Workplace, the place the funnier they’re, the extra it hurts after they develop into unhappy’.” Watch a reside video of the track above now.
The ‘Lock-In’ collection sees artists invited to Abbey Highway Studios to file a brand new interpretation of an present track or work on a brand new and surprising collaboration. The Clockworks be a part of the likes of Fontaines D.C., Django Django, Denai Moore, and Jane Weaver in participating within the collection to date.
Talking to NME in 2020, McGee mirrored on how The Clockworks first acquired in contact with him. “The band despatched me a message on Instagram, saying: ‘McGee: We’re the punk rock model of The Streets’,” he recalled.
“I believed: ‘Cocky little fuckers! Proper, I’m ’. I like working with ballsy individuals, they usually’re little hustlers. It’s the identical with Cat SFX – in a special time, she’d be a punk hero. She has robust opinions about all the pieces: she’ll have controversial views on the milkman. You’ve acquired to like individuals like that, these are one of the best individuals.”