Following on from the release of her debut single ‘Fool’s Gold’, which picked up consistent support from BBC Radio 1, Irish folk artist BLÁNID returns with her haunting new single ‘Dead Man Dancing’. With swirling melodies and a waltzing soundscape, this celtic-influenced track depicts BLÁNID’s ethereal voice floating through melancholic lyrics about the ending of a relationship.
Discussing the new track, BLÁNID reveals: “Oddly enough the idea came to me when I was watching the 80s comedy film, Airplane 2. There’s a moment where a character sees two dead men waltzing outside of the spacecraft. Though the moment is comedic, the image seemed to have an awful majesty about it, and it stayed with me for a long time. Much later on when I was writing about a situation I was in, it struck me that me and this other person were like those two men dancing. We were rotating in stasis, trying to pretend that everything was fine when really, we were suffocating.”
BLÁNID scored a notable vocalist feature on Netflix film ‘The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf’ earlier this year, following up today with her carefully-considered third single. Mixed by Duncan Pym (Mysie, Rising Star Award Ivor Novello/Apple Music winner) and mastered by Jonas Westling (Gabrielle Aplin, Newton Faulkner), ‘Dead Man Dancing’ could just be the track to launch BLÁNID towards stardom.
