The long-awaited crack of thunder from Glasgow’s Humour finally splits the sky as they announce their much-anticipated debut album, ‘Learning Greek’, set to land in early August. Alongside it, they drop ‘Plagiarist’, a song caught between the heavy air of guilt and the hungry shadows of post-hardcore chaos.
With a clatter of lurching chords and cracked-throat howls, Andreas Christoloudis sings of a thief who cannot help but steal, trapped in the terror that every word he grasps is cluttered with the echoes of others. Even the words that roam around his skull come pre-worn, dog-eared, chewed through, and spat back out.
‘Plagiarist’ wrings its hands and bares its teeth, desperate to both confess and survive, full of guilt, memory, theft, and the slow rot of identity. There is no grand redemption here, no salvation in the purity of creation. And even in all the wreckage, there’s something innately human in it all. The gnawing need to be, to make, to speak, and to just scream into the void, even when it feels like the only way is to copy and reclaim what has already been lost.
Photo by Megan Di Pinto
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