Any bands who share a name with a Wim Wenders masterpiece have got my vote—it doesn’t hurt when they drop a song as magnetic and irresistible as “A Gun In Every Home,” either. The track is one-half of a brand new double-single (along with “001 [Tame The War, Feed The Fire]”) from James Taylor and Chloe Little two UK musicians who parade around under the name Wings Of Desire. “A Gun In Every Home” is anthemic and beautiful and catchy; exactly what I imagine U2 would sound like in 2023 if they could just remember how to write a good record.
I have to tip my cap to Wings Of Desire here, as I was not familiar with their game prior to hearing this song—and boy, do I regret that. “Beautiful angel, I’ll pull you out the rubble in the city when it’s tumbling down,” Taylor sings. “You got your reasons and they’ll never love you. Baby, can’t you see how they build you up to pull you down.” With rushing, noisy guitars and Little’s angelic harmonies, “A Gun In Every Home” is bright and undeniable and definitive.
“A Gun in Every Home” explores the idea of reflecting on one’s shadow in order to break through to the other side. A dark night of the soul, although painful, is a necessary storm we have to go through in order to experience growth and expansion in this incarnation.”
“001” was a song written before this incarnation of the band. The last few lines giving us the final piece of the puzzle…our name: ‘Tame the war, feed the fire, can’t deny the wings of desire’.
Our desires often take over us and have wings of their own. We must eliminate/burn through our desires in order to reach higher states of consciousness. Our attachments can lead us down destructive paths.
Wings Of Desire, the duo made up of James Taylor and Chloe Little, have been around for a couple years now, and they’re collecting all of the songs they’ve released so far into an anthology collection called “Life Is Infinite“, out in December.
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