Announcing their debut album alongside a fresh new single, Dutch Criminal Record, a slice of Brighton’s best, has released ‘Gaslight’. Selling out shows across the UK, touring Europe and the US and seeing acclaim from radio and press, the three-piece have crafted a sound addictive to their fans, with just enough individuality and just enough familiarity in their stylised production.
‘Gaslight’ strikes a balance between spoken word delivery and breezy distant vocal melodies, turning the track into an indie rock poem, hitting each key point of personal struggle, whether bright and tongue-in-cheek or dark and painful. The slight edge to the track comes from the gritty guitar riffs and rawness of the vocal performance, balancing a roughness with sudden bursts of soaring bright lights, with vocal harmonies feeling more contented final scene than tortuous life observations. A project a long time coming the excitement is already fuelled for the upcoming album.
DCR shares, “Gaslight is at its heart a song about being young in the U.K. in the point of history where we find ourselves. Lyrically the song is a chaotic intertwining web of many different threads of thought and emotion. Regret about the ending of a relationship, the fatigue of constantly struggling financially, guilt about not being where I feel I should be in life and anxiety and anger about the state of the world.
The song had quite a difficult birth. The instrumental for the song existed for quite a while before I was able to put any lyrics to it, and when I did I really struggled to find a fitting way to express the themes on the song in an emotionally fitting way. I tried a technique used by Thom Yorke and David Bowie called cut up technique where I wrote down different lines which felt like themes I wanted to talk about, cut them out and threw them into a bag, picking them out at random to try and organise them into verses. By using this technique I hoped to mimic the chaotic anxious overthinking lots of 20 somethings are experiencing right now. The verses are like a tormented internal dialogue of stress, never settling on a single thought or theme but jumping around in a way that many overthinkers have experienced.”
Listen to ‘Gaslight’ now!
