This Friday, South Yorkshire’s Civic Green return with their new single ‘A Million Little Pieces’. Can they follow up on the working class glory of ‘City Streets’?
Escapist rock ‘n’ roll is always needed but, after the incarceration of the last 18months, it’s should be prescribed on the NHS. Civic Green tossed their hat into the ring with this debauched affair! The directness of lyrics such as ‘if I don’t leave this house today / I think I’ll go fucking insane’ are delivered with the disdain we’ve all felt.
A growing confidence is permeating their work now too:
“these strangers keep on coming back for more / I don’t want to leave them lonely”
Images of desperate indie fans pawing at doors, waiting for gigs and clubs to drink, dance, and sweat themselves to happiness flood to the surface.
Musically, they are clearly striving for a bigger sonic. Subtle licks lurk as their wall of sound builds to a destructive climax. What they drop in intricacy from their previous work, they raise in spirit and, at this early stage, to be able to switch from Noel to The Enemy and now, to the pulsating end of The Seahorses catalogue, marks them out as a much watch band.
Check back on Friday to hear the single.
*Images courtesy of Puffer Fish PR