Throbbing Epistle
They’re the hottest thing to have come out of Belfast in years. Ahead of the release of their hugely anticipated long-play debut, guitar-abusing noiseniks and so I watched you from afar, give us a track-by-track lowdown on the album.
Colin Carberry, 24 Apr 2009
And So I Watch You From Afar know how to make an attention-grabbing noise. Whether it’s conjuring up an on-stage tempest, or launching a promo blitzkrieg– there’s one thing you can count on: if you’re in the same room as the North Coast four-piece, you’ll soon know all about it.
This month sees the release of the band’s self-titled debut album, and while there’s nary a vocal to be found on it (excepting, of course, the 40 strong choir on ‘Don’t Waste Time Doing Things You Hate’), it’s a fierce, romantic, belligerent and anything but (to borrow a title from one its stand-out tracks) voiceless piece of work.
Don’t let the absence of lyrics fool you into thinking the band have nothing to say. As their song-titles suggest, there are plenty of ideas and theories seething and simmering below the water-line.
Guitarist Tony Wright has popped his head above the surface to give us the low-down.
SET GUITARS TO KILL
Tony: “This is the ludicrously named opener to our ludicrously self titled album. It’s one of the rare few tunes on the record that was named before we’d even started writing it! Usually we mull over titles for an agonising time making sure it’s both outrageous and (hopefully) thought provoking in some way.
The track itself is a real departure from how we’d been perceived in the past. Basically we wanted to make a hard rock track you could dance to. We think we did that. See you on the dancefloor.
A LITTLE BIT OF SOLIDARITY GOES A LONG WAY
An incessant riff with nice big chord explosions. We wanted to write a short punchy pop piece with our twist on it. The main hook hangs around in your head for an un-natural length of time. Then we shift it into a nice anthemic middle section. The sentiment behind the title is strength through our peers and the magnificent things happening musically on this Island if we all pull together.
CLENCH FISTS, GRIT TEETH…GO!
The heaviest track on the album, and one we especially love playing live. The title says it all really!
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