The Slough missive embarked on a series of single releases in 2022. ‘Isadora’ is the third in that run and was recorded at Raffer Studios in Kent where their stunning psyche comeback album ‘Panglossian Momentum’ was made.
Guitarist Giles Duffy originally created this surreal frenzy as an instrumental. In many ways, it pays homage to his more drawn-out work of the initial run in the late 80s and early 90s. However, once the singer and lyricist Stephen Barnes got to work, it became a condensed, almost demonic nursery rhyme befitting the post-pandemic world we find ourselves in.
During lockdown, with nowhere but to look in the past or inwards, Duffy and Barnes have conjured the dark and weirdness we all strayed to. Hope is often coursing through their melodies. Here, they’ve attacked the studio like a Dadaist nightmare where the concept never existed.
If only uncertainty always sounded this good.
The band will return to the stage again later in the year:
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