DIVINE SWEATER – “WAKING UP ALONE / JULIA”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE
Boston-born and Brooklyn-residing indie-pop band Divine Sweater is a dynamic, close-knit band powered by tight vocal harmonies and a healthy dose of groove. After the recent release of a handful of stand-out singles β “All the Way Back,” “When the World is Ending,” and “In the Comedown” β now, the band continues the momentum with the unveiling of their brand new full-length LP, Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse), out tomorrow via Better Company Records. In celebration of the release, today, weβre sharing the bandβs new lyric video for the recordβs focus track, “Waking up Alone / Julia.”
On said track, the band wrote:
“‘Waking up Alone / Julia’ captures the hazy space you inhabit when you wake up first thing in the morning. Is it day or is it night? Here, you drift in and out of memories. Dive bars. Dance floors. Light reflecting off a disco ball. Two bodies moving as one. Youβre waking up alone. Remembering theyβre gone.
We canβt go back in time, but where would we go if we had the chance?
Sonically, ‘Waking up Alone / Julia’ is a love letter to krautrock and fusion era Miles Davis.”
Holistically, Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse) is a series of vignettes from the end of the world. When Earth becomes unlivable, survivors seek shelter in abandoned submarines in a last-ditch attempt to keep living. In each track, characters reflect on their past-lives above the surface, detailing colorful memories of loss, joy, regret, and revelation. What begins as a story of intense hope for new beginnings slowly unravels into the ultimate, final disaster.
With the primary goal of writing a concept album in mind, Divine Sweater leaned into our love of science fiction, pulling inspiration from Bowieβs Ziggy Stardust and The Flaming LipsβYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. However, they wanted the story to be grounded on Earth, focused on regular people, centered around the very real effects of climate change. Since the last few years on this planet have felt sufficiently bizarre, it would be fairly unsurprising if, tonight, Earthβs mantle split open and set society ablaze, forcing the surviving factions of humanity to move underwater and live out the remainder of their scattered lives in submarines. This album, like all good stories, is a murky blend of fiction and non-fiction, the fantastic and the ordinary.
Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse) was produced by Allen Tate of San Fermin & Divine Sweater. The full record is out tomorrow (May 26) via Better Company Records.
Divine Sweater
[Single]
(Better Company Records)
Release Date: May 26, 2023
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