Today the Winnipeg band Living Hour dropped the animated music video for Middle Name.
The fourth and final single is taken from their upcoming second album Someday is Today which comes out this Friday via Kanine Records (USA) and Next Door Records (Canada).
More of hazy moody guitar slowcore alterna-pop track.
About the track:
“Middle Name” is a track about “getting stuck with yourself, forever, like an assigned middle name, or DNA,” says singer Sam Sarty.
“Some of it’s already built in, but mostly you’ll be walking around as you, doing dishes, meeting people, untangling what it means, being busy being busy.”
Originally a voice memo called “Janes’ Chicken Nuggets” with three fast kitchen chords and a big stream of consciousness read out loud, “Middle Name” reshaped into a song that added parts about leaving a hated birthday party, walking home and the feeling of pretzeling yourself small, creating a diet version of yourself to fit into someone else’s life, house and situation.
“It’s about the false idea that you find clarity about yourself through making someone else happier – but truth is not there and the feeling is sharp and feels good deep down, because it’s growing pain! It’s learning!” continues Sarty. “And the connection to self only gets Bigger, Stronger, Smiling. That pesky middle name, that pesky always-togetherness with You, something to laugh about, something to rest in, something to remember and move around in like a sweater. You, always it’s you!”
Middle Name gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
