Tracks Of The Week: CLAMM, Laura Veirs and more

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CLAMM will release their second album Care on August 19th and are teasing it with Bit Much – Jack Summers and Mile Harding’s first recording with new bass player Maisie Everett.

“It can be a strange thing to focus on your own mental wellbeing while also hearing about the constant horrific events of the world,” Summers says of the single.

“Bit Much focuses on this dynamic and the overwhelming feeling it can bring.”

Sorry’s new single There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved has received its premiere on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 Music show.

“There’s So Many People… is supposed to be a bit of a sad-funny love song!,” Asha Lorenz says. “When we’re out of love we can feel detached and think, ‘oh we’ll never be in love again…cry, cry’, but also try and laugh a bit.”

“It’s easy to laugh or think you’ll never be THAT person then the next moment you can feel like the loneliest person in the world.”

Abigail Lapell has premiered a video for All Dressed Up upon the release of Stolen Time, filmed in Austin during SXSW with local filmmaker Max Conrus.

“It was my first time at South By, and first time out on the road in quite a while, so it was super fun getting to capture the early days of spring and visit some iconic Austin sightseeing spots,” Lapell remembers.

“I love the contrast of the glitchy vintage TV set against these natural landscapes, which kind of mirrors the contradictions of the song: ‘all dressed up’ is a fever dream of isolation and claustrophobia, circumscribed by all these obsolete media machines — but with a semi-hopeful note, too, about making the best of an absurd situation, or at least, ‘this too shall pass. And spring will come again.”

Laura Veirs’ next studio album Found Light will be out on July 8th.

Winter Windows – the lead single and video – is a song, ‘very much about the strength of mothers and the power that women in cooperation have to shape their own lives and the lives of children’, according to Veirs:

“It’s about us taking the reins of life and sharing our internal light and power. I believe these rays of strength echo outward and foster love that is passed through the generations. It was fun to stretch my vocals on the high chorus near the end. This song gets at my punk roots but feels confident and current to my life right now.”

Blanck Mass – aka Benjamin John Power – has joined up permanently with Editors upon the release of their new single Heart Attack, which frontman Tom Smith describes as, ‘a song of obsession, about losing yourself in someone’.

“Having worked with the band for coming up to five years now, joining Editors seemed more like a natural progression than a decision that had to be made,” Power says. “We know that we work well together, are on a similar page creatively, and are all very close friends.

“Being part of a ‘creative conglomerate’ is something that I haven’t experienced for a while now so to be part of something that works in that way again is both liberating and exciting in equal measures.”