| A short while ago, we released the second single from the now announced EP, “Heady Metal”, for you all to hear. The single is called “Scratch Your Metal”, and I (Tiger Cohen-Towell ) am going to tell you a little bit about the song. At the end of last year I had started a course at Goldsmiths University in London, but I had not yet found a place to live so was commuting for a few weeks from Nottingham and staying with friends. One of my dear friends, Eve, who’s an actor, let me use her room while she was away filming. |
| She’d been learning some keyboard for a part she’d gotten and she had this Yamaha keyboard by the bed, and I couldn’t resist fucking around on it, and I ended up writing “Scratch Your Metal“. Lyrically, the song pays homage to unromantic-romantic love, accepting that people are made up of many flaws, and embracing a full human instead of just the parts that are easy. I think when I wrote it I wanted it to sound a bit like Divorce does Tears for Fears or something. |
| I’d been listening to a lot of The Blue Nile, a band that my partner Jocelyn introduced me to, and because the song is largely about my partner it felt like a really integral reference that I wanted to reflect in the production. We all listened to The Blue Nile a lot on our autumn 2022 tour and we love their cinematic use of synthetic sounds, it felt like something we wanted to try and work into the Divorce sonic palette. My parents were both 80s teenagers so the pop music of that era was very formative for me musically, I love the unashamed camp-ness of it, this song is very much a leaking-out of my fondness for it. |
| We’re also all big Caroline Polachek fans; I think when Felix first heard my scrappy voice note of the song he definitely took inspiration from her when he wrote guitar parts to lay on it, and we went ham on the amount of guitar on this track (didn’t really think about doing it live when we piled 67 parts into the first verse). It was very freeing for us to do a track like this, I think we’re eager to not be pigeon-holed into a genre, I think like Queen CP we’re sort of maximalists with an array of different sounds that we want to try. Why do one thing when you can do many? The video was such a joy to film, we all just basically got dressed up and danced to the song, we have a few exclusive BTS shots just for you. It was so uncanny seeing the older versions of ourselves, Clump did such a good job of casting them, massive shout out to those guys for making everyone feel so comfortable and nice on set too! |
The Fat Angel Sings 