AIR DRAWN DAGGER release music video for track 'GhostsGhostsGhosts (Phantoms)'
New EP ‘Songs To Fight The Gods To’
out now via Silent Cult Records
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“It’s mind-blowing what AIR DRAWN DAGGER have done here, not only cementing their skills and chemistry in being versatile as a band, but getting the listener excited to hear what’s to come next for the trio.” - DISTORTED SOUND
“With enough teenage angst to fill any nostalgic millennial who misses the good old days of 2000s emo, Air Drawn Dagger are ones to watch as they develop their sound and skills.” - BRING THE NOISE
“Here’s an EP for which anything less than complete domination of Britrock and emo and those other orbiting scenes just isn’t good enough.” - THE SOUNDBOARD
“This is quite simply a kick ass EP.” - 3 SONGS & OUT
Electro-emo angst-pop trio AIR DRAWN DAGGER have released a music video for track ‘GhostsGhostsGhosts (Phantoms)’, taken from their new EP ‘Songs To Fight The Gods To’, out now via Silent Cult Records.
“The track ‘GhostsGhostsGhosts (Phantoms)’ is about the crippling disappointment of becoming an adult and the shortlived highs of achievement before the crash back down to earth. The feeling you get when "in the future when all is well" is your present moment but you're still just surviving, you're still moral, you're still you, and it's never enough. Getting everything you want and still feeling empty is far more terrifying than feeling downtrodden because you have nothing. In a more positive light, it's a commentary that hope is what really gets us through,” says guitarist Lewis.
Vocalist Maisie adds, “The video starts where the video for ‘Stigmata’ ends, with me late for filming being pushed into shot. It features us playing on a stage set somewhere between our world and the afterlife. Throughout the video the audience, made up of spirits, begin to show their individual personalities even though their outer form is a simple white sheet. We struggle with not wanting to go with the ghosts to the afterlife but eventually have no choice and join our ghostly peers ending the performance "on the other side". This is a dramatic, somewhat emotional video to compliment an equally dramatic song.”
The new EP ´Songs To Fight The Gods To’ EP, out now via Silent Cult Records, was recorded with Neil Kennedy (Creeper, Boston Manor) at The Ranch Studios. The five new tracks cover topics of decrowning the patriarchy, the uncertainty of destiny, and rallying against a capitalist hellscrape, and embrace influences from 2000s Emo, such as My Chemical Romance and Paramore, to the 808 beats and synth elements of hip-hop and EDM production. Also heavily influenced by ancient mythology and narratively, the EP follows the journey of one person's battle at a fabled mountain, to stand face to face and destroy their gods.
Lewis and Maisie began writing songs in the back of a Cake Shop in Sheffield before they cut their teeth winning over diverse crowds, from old punks at Hardcore shows to young couples in Tapas restaurants, with their huge pop hooks, melancholic guitars, and earnest emotion. With a DIY North American Tour under their belt, the Sheffield-based band have been building a universe through their music videos, selling out shows, and getting added to playlists such as ‘Pop Punk Generation’, ‘Emo Anthems‘, ‘Underground Mixtape’ and ‘All New Rock’.
The band embrace not fitting in, which resonates with their fan base and has built an organic community. The genre-melting ensemble use gigs as a space to welcome those that don’t belong anywhere else, and to celebrate the darker side of people; in one big therapeutic party.
‘SONGS TO FIGHT THE GODS TO’ EP TRACKLISTING:
1. You Should Have Known Better
2. Title Fight
3. GhostsGhostsGhosts (Phantoms)
4. Stigmata
5. The Collapse of Mount Plethora
CATCH AIR DRAWN DAGGER LIVE:
25 Oct - Cluny 1, Newcastle (supporting Millie Manders & The Shutup)
26 Oct - Broadcast, Glasgow (supporting Millie Manders & The Shutup)
27 Oct - Bodega, Nottingham (supporting Millie Manders & The Shutup)
2 Nov - The WaterBear, Brighton (supporting Electric Enemy)
3 Nov - Fiddlers Elbow, London (Headline)
4 Nov - Disorder, Manchester (Headline)
AIR DRAWN DAGGER ARE:
Maisie (Vocals)
Lewis (Guitar, Backing Vocals)
Ross (Drums)
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