Orlando Weeks with The Maccabees at Leeds Festival (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Milk Breath is the new single from Orlando Weeks‘ debut solo album A Quickening.
The Maccabees frontman is due put his first solo record proper out on June 12th, and with this preview is continuing the theme set by previous singles Safe In Sound and Blood Sugar; “This is about watching my son sleep,” Weeks says.
“When you’ve rocked him for 45 minutes and finally the wriggling has stopped and the muscles have relaxed and you put him down in slow motion and then stand, without breathing for another 20 minutes praying that he’s asleep. A cracked twig in the street below is like a slammed cutlery drawer. A car alarm half a mile away might as well be in the room with you. But your baby is asleep and at peace and slowly you are too.”