UK songwriter Paul Molloy returns with new single ‘Luxurious Bunker’.
A key a part of the Coral’s artistic universe, Paul Molloy has additionally constructed an enriching solo catalogue. New album ‘The Madmen Of Apocalypso’ – now how’s that for a title, eh? – is out on September sixth, the work of somebody strolling their very own path.
Set to be launched through Spring Heeled Data, the file options some acerbic, tongue-in-cheek lyricism. New single ‘Luxurious Bunker’ is a living proof – a personality examine of a paranoid, delusional determine, it additionally doubles as a type of surreal kitchen sink drama.
Psych-pop with Morricone overtones, there are some particular Beatles-esque overtones in there. Paul Molloy shakes it up with a neat Kinks-esque music corridor breakdown, however there’s additionally a forward-facing tendency that places you in thoughts of friends corresponding to newcomers The Crystal Teardrop, and even Stateside outfit Electrical Trying Glass.
Removed from a retread, Paul Molloy is ready to bend these influences, producing one thing distinct, and new within the course of.
He feedback…
The tune is about a particularly delusional and paranoid man (most likely affected by PTSD) who’s below the phantasm that the human race is relying on him and on his survival, solely, to keep away from full extinction. He subsequently acquires himself a hazmat go well with and builds a ‘Luxurious Bunker’ which he by no means emerges from once more. Even to take out the bins.
It happened when my girlfriend, Fiona, was watching a TV programme a few man who was renovating previous warfare bunkers in America and turning them into luxurious properties sooner or later occasion of apocalypse and disaster. We thought it was hilarious, so every week later it received introduced up once more and the title ‘Luxurious Bunker’ discovered its manner into the dialog and I believed: “I would like to write down this.”
We’ve grabbed the surreal video – a enjoyable perception into the character’s internal workings.
Tune in now.
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