Still Wave has unveiled a music video to their cover of Taylor Swift’s ‘Fortnight’, the single also featured on their new EP Post Atomic Love out now via These Hands Melt.
Still Wave describe their version of ’Fortnight’ as “the perfect love/no love song: you are the centre of my world and we are forever vs. run into you and talk about the weather: modern love is something you get, use and throw away. Majesty and melody to sing with tears in your eyes.”
This release kicks off an experimental phase for the band, running alongside their usual album schedule.
Post Atomic Love explores the nature of love in the post-atomic age, an era marked by a perceived loss of identity, connection, and feeling. The EP conveys this through a selection of covers, including tracks by Tears for Fears, Taylor Swift and Dissection, alongside an acoustic version of their own track, ‘Starwound.
The band said, “It’s all about love here. Sing these songs with us: we are all lonely and isolated, trying to share some missing feelings since the atomic bomb. What is love in this desperate age of speed, lights, consume and abuse? Why did we become the space travellers, the drowning alone, the lonely stuck-in-bedrooms souls, trying to figure out what love is? Sing these songs with us and we’ll try to answer.”
Still Wave‘s take on ‘Watch Me Bleed’ transforms the original into “the raging scream of someone that sings about his/her abusive love story and feels like waiting forever for a change that’s never gonna come. Alone, untouched, empty while being with someone.” ‘Starwound’ reimagines their shoegaze anthem as a “delicate musical elegy.” Lastly, ‘Where Dead Angels Lie’ converts a black metal track into a “sweet folk/acoustic piece about the evil inner ghosts that we carry inside killing the beauty of love and leaving the purity of feelings abandoned in the cold”.
Post Atomic Love is available digitally and as a limited digi-sleeve CD edition.
