East London band Human Interest seal their rise with ‘Shapeshifting’.
The group’s new EP ‘Smile While You’re Losing (An Audio Guide To Wellness)’ lands on September 6th, released via key tastemaker imprint Nice Swan Records. Playing a sold out show at Third Man London on May 2nd, Human Interest will then go on the road with dreamy CLASH faves Pale Blue Eyes.
Ahead of this, the group have just shared biting new single ‘Shapeshifting’. It’s a song that blurs genre lines, continually in flux – fully embracing its title, it moves from something sharp yet melodic through whispered spoken word and beyond.
A paean to personal honesty, ‘Shapeshifting’ urges us all to look beneath the veneer and discover ourselves in the process. The East London group comment…
The song is about feeling like you’re not being your true self; thinking about the different people you shift into day to day to navigate the world.
think it’s hard, when you’re queer, to feel like you’re being truly authentic to yourself. There are so many experiences that happen while growing up that make you hide who you really are. When you spend your formative years doing this, I think it becomes such a part of your fabric and so ingrained in you that you end up as an adult not really knowing where your true self begins and the person you felt you had to be ends.
On a whole, it’s dealing with alienation, but an alienation from yourself and who you feel you have to be. It’s about feeling like you’re not dealing with the things, and you choose to ‘go out’, have a good time instead. We all have to toe the line between the self and what society wants from us.
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Dougie Chalmers
