Divorce have dropped their new single ‘Antarctica’.
It’s the latest cut from the band’s debut album ‘Drive to Goldenhammer’, due 7th March 2025 via Gravity/Capitol, following ‘All My Freaks’.
The Nottingham four-piece – Tiger Cohen-Towell (vocals/bass), Felix Mackenzie-Barrow (vocals/guitar), Adam Peter Smith (guitar/synth) and Kasper Sandstrøm (drums) – recorded at The Calm Farm in North Yorkshire, and then with producer Catherine Marks at Real World Studios.
Co-vocalist and guitarist Felix explains: “I wrote ‘Antarctica’ at the end of a long and deeply important relationship as a way to self-soothe and make sense of the loss I was feeling whilst touring non-stop. Thinking of the silent indifference of that vast continent at the bottom of the world was and still is something of a meditation for me. Barry Lopez describes Antarctica as ‘utterly remote, even as you stand in it. The light itself is aloof.’
“The song also recounts an event that Tiger and I experienced, encountering a newborn calf in the middle of the road on a late night drive. It felt urgent; the calf’s defenceless was impossible to ignore and we carried it back into the farm. There was a choice there. Did we rescue it from the road where it could have been hit by a human in a car or did we just send it back to be killed by a different human further down the line?
“Neither option feels good or makes any sense to me, but the feeling of its fur covered in afterbirth and the desperate cries of its mother is something I will never forget.”
The band are also set to support The Maccabees at All Points East next summer.
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