Basement SHARE NEW SONG "HEAD ALIGHT" OFF FIRST NEW ALBUM IN OVER EIGHT YEARS
On Friday 8th May, British alternative rock mainstays Basement will return with WIRED, marking their first new album in over eight years and a reunion with their original label, Run For Cover Records. Boldly defying genre limitations, the record marks a new chapter for the band and is their most authentic and fully realised work to date. Working with producer John Congleton (Death Cab for Cutie, Wallows, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten), WIRED is the sound of five friends, who have weathered every high and low without a single lineup change, creating the uncompromising music that first moved them. Today they reveal the final single ahead of WIRED’s release, the dubby and deliriously hooky “Head Alight.”
“What started out as a love song quickly evolved into something a lot more ethereal,” says vocalist Andrew Fisher. “Alex was picking up on what I was saying in a far broader and otherworldly way. He saw it less in a romantic way - a more universal look at the idea of someone’s soul or essence being so powerful and beautiful you can’t look away. This really excited me because it allowed me to get out of my head and focus on something way more abstract and therefore, hopefully more expansive.” Fisher continues, “I hadn’t really approached songwriting like this before and I found it really fulfilling. We were really stuck with this sound - focusing on the guitar leading it, in a very indie rock early 2000s thing. It just never felt right. The more we added, the less I liked it. John stripped everything back and it became so much more powerful.” Watch the video, directed by Kaylinn Duffy, here:
Basement have previously shared the title track, “Broken By Design" and more recently "The Way I Feel." The singles have drawn attention from, among others, Stereogum, Alternative Press, Under The Radar, and Consequence who noted, “Basement’s two glimpses of what to expect on WIRED have been released: the title track and “Broken By Design.” On the former, a towering hook and urgent guitars channel the energy that Basement have made an epic career out of. The latter finds Basement leaping in the opposite direction for a moodier, more gentle tune. Equally as captivating, but for different reasons."
