Fanfarlo - Shiny Things

NPR:

The new song features pounding rhythms and subtle electronic accents alongside the band’s familiar harmonies and soaring arrangements, while the lyrics hint at a hidden darkness: “Let’s not worry about going extinct. We’ll be preserved on a shelf somewhere,” Simon Balthazar sings, “Thinking of shiny things.”“This is a song about giving things up; about how easy it is for us to lose sight of the things that matter and trade them for the things that don’t,” Balthazar wrote in an email. “An absurd battle cry from the easily-distracted magpie within, against something that I hope isn’t quite as extinct as the Pterodactyl.” (That’s a reference to another lyric, from the song’s chorus.)

Their debut album of 2009 was superb so I’m really excited about their new one; it’s called Rooms Filled with Light and it’s due to come out end of Feb. 

[ “Replicate” is another cool song from Rooms that is currently available as a free download on the band’s website => HERE] 

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