Cork six-piece, Pebbledash share ‘Slow Slowly’, a haunting final taste of their debut EP ‘Four Portraits of the Same Ugly House’.
Pebbledash arrive into the new year with the swampy ‘Slowly Slowly’. The band are making a fierce statement this month, with their debut EP due for release on January 31st and their debut run of UK shows, including our We Are So Young night at The Social on. January 29th.
‘Slowly Slowly’ is significantly darker than previous offerings from Pebbledash, with unsettling moments of guitar feedback complimented by raw vocals and synth sections causing a fierce musical whiplash. Yet its in the softer moments that Pebbledash thrive with Fionnbharr Hickey and Asha Egan McCutcheon’s vocal harmonies bringing a serene colour to the verses. Lyrically, the band encapsulate frustration and isolation – something they brought to the studio with the recording session being completed in pitch black.
On the track, the band say ‘Slowly Slowly’ is a song about the desire to belong, be seen, and in many ways the selfishness of needing recognition. The lamenting tone of the vocals and harmonies glide upon the guitars and this frustration builds to the brief release of feedback at the choruses before returning to the echo chamber in the 2nd verse. Recorded in complete darkness in an attempt to capture that feeling of isolation and translate it to the music ‘Slowly Slowly’ jumps between Catharsis and Longing, it is our statement of the ‘beautiful ugly’ the things you want but know you shouldn’t and the heartbreak when things don’t happen like how you dream, and I guess this is us saying its fine to be selfish sometimes about these kinds of things”
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