Following Mishkin Fitzgerald’s outing as a solo artist, Brighton’s masters of theatrical doom-pop return with a new single ahead of album number three.
‘The Bullet’ finds the band reigning in some of the maximalist tendencies of ‘Feast of Hammers’ but losing none of the theatricality that they’ve made their trademark. So without the frantic flamboyance of ‘Incitatus’, the lead single from the aforementioned sophomore release, the drama is more subtle: piano and strings still define the sound and sculpt the musical backdrop from Mishkin’s gliding vocals as she leads the listener through a perfect tale of love and life and death. It’s hardly a conventionally-structured pop song, either – as if Birdeatsbaby would do such a thing. Changes of tempo and mood arrive unexpectedly with each twist and turn in the narrative and it’s clear they’ve returned on peak form.
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