CAROL HODGE RELEASES NEW SINGLE ‘MANOEUVRES’
OUT FRIDAY 12TH APRIL 2024
WATCH THE ‘MANOEUVRES’ VIDEO HERE
Rock ‘N’ Load’s Thoughts: “Carol has delivered a banger, a dark gritty track along with its cinematic video demands your full attention”
“Infectiously brilliant” – Classic Rock
Tomorrow sees the release of ‘Manoeuvres’, the first release from Carol’s forthcoming fifth studio album ‘Effortless Insecurity’.
Manoeuvres is a gloves-off, claws-out retort to the fakers.
The song evokes the sound of Queen Adreena fist-fighting with Queens Of The Stone Age in a dingy basement, while Queen smash the life out of a dusty old Hammond in the corner.
Carol pulls no punches with the spiky lyrical content:
Constantly catastrophise and threaten your exit
Violence will do nothing cause it’s just what you wanted
Play the victim, how you love it
Dress it up as something other than
All these false manoeuvres
As she further explains, this is a song that channels ire and disappointment:
“I’m sick and tired of the lack of authenticity from public figures. Whether it’s the evil clowns running our country, or the narcissists clogging up my social media feed, the layers of falsity are sickeningly thick. People seem incapable of honesty, unable to give anything without a demand for reciprocity. Everything is strategic and transactional.”
Oscillating between stomping rage in the verses and dreamy, organ-infused disappointment in the choruses, Manoeuvres sets out the stall for Carol’s upcoming fifth studio album, due for release in September 2024.
Produced by Dave Draper (The Wildhearts, The Professionals, Jazmin Bean, Dodgy, Kerbdog), Manoeuvres sees Hodge sliding effortlessly into a Stoner Rock direction.
The release is accompanied by a music video by videographer Rob Heilig. A black and white, hypnotically manic world of witchcraft and disturbingly lifelike doll faces, the video was shot on location in a ruined cottage in the Colne Valley in West Yorkshire.
Find Carol Hodge online here: https://linktr.ee/carolhodgemusic