Melbourne group Parsnip dart out of the tracks with new single ‘The Light’.
The four-piece caught attention with two helter-skelter seven inch singles, before delivering 2019 debut album ‘When The Tree Bears Fruit’.
Working patiently on a follow-up, Parsnip have signed to UK based DIY collective Upset The Rhythm, who will release new album ‘Behold’ on April 26th.
New single ‘The Light’ shows just why this band are so special: a tightly wound piece of off kilter indie pop, it recalls everyone from those glorious Kinks singles through to seminal Sarah Records band The Field Mice via the messthetics of The Raincoats.
With a fuzzed out garage-punk guitar solo, this is the kind of rip-it-up-and-throw-it-away nonchalance The B-52s made their own.
Parsnip’s Carolyn Hawkins comments…
‘The Light’ is about having the wool removed from your eyes and seeing everything as it really is, blindingly clear, for the first time. I was thinking a lot about the transformative power of anger in grief and healing, and I guess I also just wanted to express how I was feeling. Rage always produces the catchiest songs.
I was inspired by the Rumi quote “The wound is where the light enters you”, as well as Leonard Cohen’s ‘Paper Thin Hotel’, which describes the experience of hearing an ex sleeping with someone else in the next room, and his liberation at realising he no longer feels anything. I also included a little interlude that rips off “Nervous Breakdown” by Black Flag, because that felt relevant too.”
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Jamie Wdziekonskl
