Irish post-punk trio Moscow Metro returned at the end of January with two new tracks, ‘Late Night Radio’ and our Track Of The Day, ‘Berlin Prayer’.
These latest works - follow-up their debut, 'Spirit Of A City' EP of last year- are the first to feature new vocalist Sean Corcoran, and were written while touring throughout Germany where they played alongside The National, St. Vincent, Hozier, amongst others.
Produced by Owen Geaney (of Silent Noise Parade), the Limerick-based outfit - Corcoran, vocals, guitar, bass; Dylan Casey, drums / percussion; Alan Holmes, synths - 'Berlin Prayer', just shy of four minutes in length, is something of a more sombre working compared to 'Late Night Radio', with melodic layered guitars building along its trajection to a crashing finale, while the hard-hitting pounding rhythmic drum bursts, with Corcoran’s brooding baritone lending well to the new sound, make for an anthemic sound that one can well imagine going down a storm on big stages.
Describing the inspiration behind 'Berlin Prayer', Corcoran says: “At one stage I imagined the graffiti as prayers, not in the religious sense, but with a similar sense of something spiritual, seeking to communicate a message to the city. I don’t know why, I was obviously seeing what I wanted to see. Later we found out most of the graffiti was ‘pimmel’. Later on, at a sold out show in a WWII bunker in Stuttgart we found out that ‘pimmel’ was the German word for penis, so our artistic interpretations weren't too far off the mark."
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