アイルランド/コーク出身のオルタナティヴロックバンド Ways of Seeingが、10/8にJoyful Hour Recordsからリリースしたニューシングル 'Last Wave'のMVを公開！
ディレクターは James O'Donnell。
10/10発売のニューアルバム『The Inheritance of Fear』収録曲。
同郷出身の詩人 デーリン・ニグリオファによる詩にインスピレーションを得たという楽曲。前回も詩人 フィリップ・ラーキンの名前を出していたり、アウトプットする前段階の部分が興味深いです。どちらも日本語版が出てるようなので読んでみたいな。
“‘Last Wave’ is about the things we inherit but never asked for—the fear, the darkness, the faults and the complicated legacies of the past. I was especially taken by Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s poem ‘An Experiment to Engineer an Inheritance of Fear', which reflects on the Irish Famine and its lingering wounds that still remain today. The song examines our Irish identity; a colonial past and Catholic upbringing - how there are parts of our history so intertwined in our culture that to leave it behind completely would almost seem like a betrayal. That perhaps to live with the darkness is to live more fully, and that without it, we are left with something devoid of meaning, somehow. In the song I’m examining my makeup - what I can let go of and what must I hold dear? Writing it was my way of acknowledging those existential burdens, while also searching for release and healing.”
