BODIES - Limbs
Info: Originally the solo project of multi-instrumentalist David Anthony McGeown, BODIES has now expanded to a four-piece, with the addition of Nathan Maher (guitar), Danilo Ward (bass) and Scott Johnson (drums). The band has been busy all summer earning a name for themselves as a raucous live band with energetic performances that juxtapose their starker, more restrained studio sound that has been referred to by some as mopecore reminiscent of Robert Smith, Radiohead and Manchester Orchestra.
'Limbs' is the first single to be released off the new BODIES album, 'Drench', which will be released later year. One of the most anticipated studio albums from an Irish artist this year, 'Drench' features collaborations with members of some of Ireland’s most prominent bands such as Squarehead, Kid Karate, Blooms, Kodaline and Overhead the Albatross.
"The lyrics of this song are very personal to me. I wrote it during a difficult time in my life when I was finding it hard to feel anything for anyone, or enjoy anything. It’s about going through the motions of life and hoping that things will change,” says David, speaking about 'Limbs'. "Fortunately for me, writing music and lyrics has always helped me arrange my thoughts and feelings. Spending time trying to define a feeling as poignantly as possible in a few lines has been really cathartic for me. with 'Limbs', going through the writing process helped me remember that nothing stays the same; everything has an end. The song ends on a 'maybe' and it's there to remind me to always have hope."
There's an unusual and simultaneous sense of joviality, despondency and angst on the latest single 'Limbs' from Dublin band BODIES. The bouncing bass-line parallels a hopping percussion at the outset in a mechanically cartoonish kind of way. McGeown's forlorn and nasal vocal tempered immediately by a pursuant cheery backing vocal. Just before the one-minute mark, any sense of breeziness is scythed down, the choppy momentum of the track gathering pace and fuzz. The sinister hum finally landing on all fours at 2:35, culminating in a lavish industrial rock finale, that bass and beat from the beginning both reaching a peak before exhaustion, beaten to the finish line by a searing hard rock guitar riff. 'Limbs' is an admirable execution of deliberately stacking sound upon sound until you've squeezed all of the blood from the stone before collapsing in a heap on the dark cold floor.
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