Strange Company unveil expansive new single, ‘Waves’
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Following the success of their return with ‘Do You Feel Numb?’, South Wales alt-rock quintet Strange Company are following it up with another brand new single. Titled ‘Waves’, the new single sees Strange Company exploring darker aspects to their sound, with a sonic approach that walks the tightrope between post-hardcore and post-rock, taking elements of both and creating an absorbing, unique song that will have listeners hitting repeat over and over.
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Strange Company guitarist, Owen Weston, expands on how Waves came to be:
"Sonically, 'Waves' ended up on the darker and more atmospheric side of our spectrum. When I first wrote the bare bones of the song, I was listening to a lot of Citizen, which definitely came through in the emo-leaning feel of the original demo. Once I took it to the boys, though, every element of the song seemed to get heavier. We added delayed guitars, swelling textures and echoed vocals, which transformed it into a much denser, more evolving soundscape. Alef and I have always had a real love for shoegaze, and I think that comes through pretty clearly in the final mix. It’s been really interesting hearing that version alongside the original demo and seeing how far the song evolved.
Lyrically, the song continues the themes we started exploring with our previous release, 'Do You Feel Numb?'. 'Waves' is about those points in life where you suddenly find yourself somewhere — good or bad — without really understanding how you got there, or where you’re supposed to go next. I originally wrote the chorus lyric, “Where are we going? Where have we been?” as a placeholder, fully intending to come back to it and replace it with something more poetic or clever. But we all loved the simplicity of those lines, and the more we lived with them, the more we realised they said exactly what we wanted them to.
Sometimes there’s no need to overcomplicate it."