The Clockworks have shared a brand new track referred to as ‘Misplaced In The Second’ as a part of Abbey Highway Studios’ ‘Lock-In’ collection – test it out under now.
The Galway band, who’re signed to Alan McGee’s It’s Creation Child label, launched their debut single ‘Payments And Drugs’ 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 had 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. After 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 stay recording to seize the essence of the observe.”
He continued: “This track was initially three totally different tracks. I realised that thematically it felt just like the three songs had been attempting to get at one thing related and even the chord sequences for each had been unusually 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 usually 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 believe that affect comes from exhibits like Fleabag or The Workplace, the place the funnier they’re, the extra it hurts once they change into unhappy’.” Watch a stay 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 current track or work on a brand new and sudden collaboration. The Clockworks be a part of the likes of Fontaines D.C., Django Django, Denai Moore, and Jane Weaver in collaborating within the collection up to now.
Chatting with 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 folks, and so they’re little hustlers. It’s the identical with Cat SFX – in a special time, she’d be a punk hero. She has sturdy opinions about every thing: she’ll have controversial views on the milkman. You’ve acquired to like folks like that, these are the perfect folks.”
