The latest single to be culled from the dizzying rollercoaster that is the album ‘Feast of Hammers’, ‘Anchor’ begins as a brooding, rolling piano-led ballad with a twist, in that it builds pace and sound and emotional intensity, until Mishkin declares ‘everybody has to die some day’. At this point, gentle strings carry things back to a more sedate play-out. Put simply, it crams a whole heap of drama into its four minutes. It might be less wildly boisterous than some of the other tracks on the album, notably the single ‘Incitatus’, but ‘Anchor’ is still entirely representative of the immense scope of Birdeatbaby’s theatrical multi-angled compositions.
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B-side ‘Hanging Tree’ isn’t a cover of the Queens of the Stone Age track, and captures the band in a reflective mood, with just Mishkin’s voice accompanied by piano and the most abrupt ending to a song I’ve heard in a while.
In short: good stuff.
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