Greywind’s new single ‘Swerve’ deals with the longing to disassociate from trauma you’ve been through. Says guitarist Paul O’Sullivan: “Swerve is about trying to destroy the layer of sadness that has consumed you for so long. Trying different ways to cope but being consumed by the feeling that there’s no way out”. Vocalist (and sibling) Steph adds that the song taps into “that never ending feeling of sorrow where all you want to do is close your eyes and fall asleep but you keep having nightmares about the past.”
The heart-wrenching, melancholic anthem ‘Swerve’ appears on the duo’s long-awaited new album ‘Severed Heart City’, which will be out 19th September via FLG. A veritable emo epic, the full-length was deftly produced, engineered and mixed by Sam Guaiana (Neck Deep, Silverstein, Holding Absence).
Having heralded the start of a new era earlier this year with the captivatingly hooky ‘Acid Rain’ and ‘I.K.A.M.F.’, Greywind have been further teasing the highly stylised and deeply emotive world of ‘Severed Heart City’ with glimpses of its arena-ready cuts like ‘Waterfall’ and ‘Moon’.
Getting to this point has been more than a rollercoaster for Greywind, whose debut album ‘Afterthoughts’ was released in 2017 via a major label who promptly dropped them despite the band’s ultra-promising “Ones To Watch” status. They’ve gone on to stoke their own creative fire and avid fanbase with a Tik Tok surge during lockdown, an EP released by Version III last year (‘Antidote’), tours and festival appearances across the UK, Europe and North America, and now a partnership with FLG. ‘Severed Heart City’ is both the culmination of and the soundtrack to that journey, taking in all the twists and turns in the siblings’ story, both personally and professionally, along the way.
“Severed Heart City is an extended allegory for the stages of trauma, and one’s inner struggle to find resolution,” say Steph and Paul. “There are many roads that lead to the heart of this broken city, but there is only one bridge out – one of acceptance and hope. Our band was created after the suicide of our uncle and since then we’ve been on an intense journey of achieving some of our biggest dreams to then having everything ripped away from us. Severed Heart City is a place where it’s ok to be sad, depressed and feel like the whole world is against you but it’s also a place where you make sure none of those things ever make you give up on yourself or your dreams. Only you can save yourself.”
It’s no surprise to hear that Greywind are inspired by great emo pop originators like Jimmy Eat World, Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance, with the duo’s flair for the dramatic and knack for an earworm melody resulting in an album filled to the rafters with anthems. These are songs you can imagine ringing out from the biggest of stages and being sung back at the band by rapt audiences the world over. Envelop yourself in Greywind’s ‘Severed Heart City’.
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