UK indie-rock act Blaenavon broke up earlier this 12 months, however frontman Ben Gregory has re-entered the fray as a solo act. His debut solo single is the seven-minute epic “deathbed hangover,” a careening but undeniably beautiful observe produced alongside Blaine Harrison of Mystery Jets and engineer Matt Twaites.
Written within the wake of his receiving remedy in psychiatric hospitals, “‘deathbed hangover’ is about the self-destructive tendency of total immersion in entertainment,” Gregory says.
He provides:
My mind has the consistency of mushy peas as a result of my phone is so seductive. I attempted to play this in opposition to extra conventional fears of aggressive technological enlargement: communities shifting underground in a Wellsian nightmare. The laptop-screen gentle is our never-setting solar, which I feel is unintentionally a Mr. Burns reference. I recorded this music throughout lockdown after hard-binging Watchmen (2019) and discovering Reznor/Ross’ soundtrack overwhelmingly stunning. I hope I referenced a few of that in an honest gentle. (Bear in thoughts I’m only a guitarist randomly mashing laptop keys.) Interesting truth: The demo of this music was at all times labelled “(unmixable version).” I prefer to assume the unique chaos carries by means of, however Blaine (Producer) and Matt (Engineer, Mixer) managed to make a model that verges on listenable.
Listen to “deathbed hangover” beneath.