Sinead O’Brien has shared her new track ‘Roman Ruins’.
It’s a cut from the Irish poet and performer’s debut EP ‘Drowning In Blessings’, due for release this summer on Chess Club Records.
“‘Become fixated on the change… Change must show its face on mine,” she says of her new ‘un. “I am here calling it, needing it. I will not wait any more’. This was written in a notebook a few days before ‘Roman Ruins’.
“Written while living in the mansion with fifty people in Hampstead; a sudden realisation occurred. It allowed me to see in the brutal light of day. The illusion was collapsed. Exploded. Statues, monuments, clay and ancient structures emerged… A hidden city. The city wants to stay hidden. This is the blind spot.”
She continues: “All four of my bedroom walls faced a different room or hallway. It was set up like a boxing ring. I could hear multiple narratives, coming from all directions even in my sleep. There were ‘episodes’ reeling in my mind through the night and into morning. The relentless sounds, conversations.
“Images from the lyrics are also heard in the musical arrangement. ‘Standing still will kill you’; This shuffling drum, checking in and out like the rug pulling from underneath the feet. Unsettling the foundations. Revealing the ground under. The drum has this magnetic raw power over the other elements – almost tidal. I love this bossiness.”
Give ‘Roman Ruins’ a listen below.
