Wellington, New Zealand dream pop band Womb have aired their new single “Only You” alongside an accompanying video.
The track features on their upcoming third studio album “One Is Always Heading Somewhere“, due to be released on March 14 via Flying Nun Records. Pre-order it here.
According to the press release, the new album builds musically from where their previous albums left off. While still harbouring their signature emotive and ethereal sound, this new record sees the three moving toward a more refined style. The arrangements are layered and warm, where Georgette’s driving drums are met with percussive samples, Haz’s cinematic synths swirl and rise, and Cello’s textured strings stretch across the tracks. There are also sparser moments that draw you to Cello’s direct and often melancholic vocal delivery.
Lyrically, the songs trace moments across the two years recording the album, drawing on the repeated imagery that characterises Cello’s days: of driving, of dreaming, of light on water, or in the sky. Each song is both personal and allegorical, diaristic and metaphoric – each looking at connection and the things we are tethered to. Cello explains:
“These twelve songs are a collection of moments throughout a span of time in our lives – the oldest song [Erosion] written ten years ago. Because these songs are often diaristic in nature, having self-recorded nearly everything at the various homes we’ve lived in feels very special – I can hear the creak of my old chair, the sound of cars going by on the street I used to live on, the tap of the space bar on my laptop as I finish recording.”
Watch the Caleb Corlett-directed video below.
One Is Always Heading Somewhere Tracklist:
- One Is Always Heading Somewhere
- Only You
- Slip
- Angels
- Unto
- Georgie’s Song
- Just Like Waves
- Interlude #2
- Erosion
- Take (ft. Ben Woods)
- Sometimes
- O.I.A.H.S.
Photo by Ted Black
