DECLAN WELSH & The Decadent West have shared a new single called ‘Mercy’, the first to be taken from their second album, due out next year.
In the years following the release of their debut LP in 2019, ‘Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold’, the four-piece have toured extensively and received widespread acclaim – remaining as prolific as ever with the release of a further three EPs, which have featured some of their most intelligent and introspective songwriting to date.
New single ‘Mercy’ continues in the same vein as the frontman explores the desire to chuck old habits. Musically though, the song is anything but – it adds further layers to their indie-rock template with rich vocal harmonies and surging guitar parts, all driven by an impenetrable swagger.
On the new single, Welsh said: “It’s about how hard it is to chuck habits. Drink, cigarettes, drugs, food, social media, people, relationships – everyone’s been in a situation where they are in a bit of a loop of wanting to walk away from something and getting sucked back in.”
“It’s what the song sounded like, not the real lows of that kinda thing but the last remnants of the high, when you are still getting something from it but you’re starting to know you’ve got to give it up sometime soon,” he adds. “The Id and the Superego battling it out and the Id winning for one of the last times.”
The track was produced by Mercury Prize winner Gianluca Buccellati (Arlo Parks, Easy Life) and has arrived alongside a music video by Daniel Blake.
Declan Welsh & The Decadent West headline The Barrowlands on 18th November, with support from Fauves and Spyres.
Check it out below.
