Track Of The Day :: Stereo Honey - The Bay

Words: Ellie Ward

Produced by Charlie Russell, 'The Bay' is the first single from London four-piece Stereo Honey's debut EP 'Monuments', due on December 1 via Beatnik Creative.

The moving track - follow-up to 'The Heart' and 'Where No One Knows Your Name' - is a haunting and personal song about death, tragedy and physical connection, written by lead vocalist/guitarist Pete Restrick, whose falsetto narrates the tragic love story over a melancholic backing of flowing guitars.

Based on the 2004 disaster where twenty-three people - labourers trafficked from southern China - lost their lives at Morecambe Bay, Restrick, who was 13 at the time, recalls the area that inspired the song:

"My grandparents had a caravan on the edge of the bay at Grange-over-Sands. I remember me and my brothers playing there when we visited Morecambe, running out into the sand under the close watch of my dad who would loudly belt out at us if we ran too far out.

"The lyrics of this song entail both a physical connection and a personal memory to an event I could not fully understand at the time. 'The Bay' is a love song written from the perspective of the two bodies that were never recovered, clinging onto one another whilst the water rises around them: 'Here comes the tide, wait for a lifeline / Place your fingers in mine / we’ll wait for a lifetime.'”