Manchester anxious, angular alt-punk band The Empty Page have unveiled their new single “What Happens Now?“.
The track is taken from their sophomore album ‘Imploding‘, which came out in May. Buy it here if you haven’t already.
The Empty Page do not write love songs. Instead, you’ll find subjects like bed rot, victim blaming, and the end of days set to hook-laden tunes layered over fuzzy riffs and the occasional urgent synth. Imploding, produced by Morton Kong, features the whole gamut of emotions that come with navigating today’s anxious, apocalyptic times.
About “What Happens Now?“, Kel Page says:
“It’s fairly safe to say I write a lot of depressing lyrics put to jaunty melodies. The song is about a midlife crisis, I suppose. It’s about hitting life’s halfway point and feeling like all the good stuff is in the past. It’s about uncertainty about the future in life and love and looking for a light to guide you in a more positive direction but struggling to find one.
It’s about how friendship, love and various passions warp and change and sometimes fade completely over the years. Reaching a point in your life where you have to accept you’re not ‘young’ any more and how much future you have left is uncertain. People have told me it has a hopeful vibe which is funny because it contains probably the most depressing lyric I have ever written (with stiff competition!): ‘A fist strikes the hourglass, there’s less future than past’. Jadedness. Lack of hope. A nice cheery end to the record and one I imagine people listening to on a ‘find yourself’ solo road trip – hopefully stopping before the car goes over a cliff.”
Take a listen now.
Photo by Liam Maxwell
