Posted by How best to define This Is The Deep?
After all, the group are – by their very definition – almost undeniable, a seven-piece project whose multiple members move from psych-pop to post-punk to folk.
The Hackney collective return with extraordinary new single ‘Glass’ and it is every bit as malleable as its molten namesake – a song, a piece of music, that twists and turns around multiple corners.
A song that embodies the band’s communal sense of ambition, ‘Glass’ seems to break through invisible boundaries.
This Is The Deep tell Clash…
“The song is about the idea of falling and the feeling of something foreboding happening as the result of over-reaching. There are different ways to interpret the lyrics; they can apply to the excesses of late capitalism, our unbalanced position with the natural world, as well as a relationship between two people.”
“The focus on falling and impact could also be seen to be a metaphor for a human position of being in some way always falling towards something, some conclusion or unknown destination. Maybe ultimately the fall is part of what we are, as Buzz Lightyear says maybe we’re not flying but ‘falling with style’.”
We’re able to share the video, which is “kind of a retelling of Humpty Dumpty but instead of an egg there’s this bald muscly action-man figure and instead of falling and cracking he gets sucked into another world through his TV…”
Colourful yet eye-catchingly DIY in its construction, ‘Glass’ depicts a figure falling “into a plasticine Loony-Toons inspired landscape haunted by a mysterious cowboy with pop-corn eyes where pop-corn clouds hang in the sky.”
“We’re interested in working with the tropes of visual media and popular culture and how they affect the way we perceive and ultimately construct the world. David Greaber’s quote that ‘The ultimate hidden truth of the world is it is something we make and could just as easily make differently’ sums this up for us pretty well.”
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