AHEAD of their Tenement Trail debut next weekend, Glasgow band Humour have shared a thrilling new single called ‘pure misery’.
With their debut EP of the same name out on 25th November, the title track is another oddball slice of post-punk that explores the uncertain feeling that comes with fronting a band.
Set against barbed guitar lines and a looming bass line, Andreas Christodoulidis unleashes his surreal and absurd lyrics in typically eccentric fashion, as the track gains in intensity and explodes out of the speakers.
The frontman says the song “is about finding or putting yourself in a position where you are expected to have something important to say, and realising that you don’t really.”
“I wrote the song about being a singer in a band, and standing up to address lots of people in a very serious way as though I must have something meaningful to relate; something the audience needs to hear. It feels a little ridiculous doing that sometimes, especially when the songs are most often just about stories or feelings.”
“So the narrator of the song is supposed to be trying to convince the audience that he has something very profound to tell them, and he’s kind of stalling until he can come up with something…”
Tune in now.
