Track Of The Day :: The Wound Review - When The Love Rots Out

Words: Ellie Ward 

Glasgow-based duo The Wound Review, Steven Melens and Jamie Colthart, follow up 2019's debut single ‘Lately’, plus a self-titled EP, with new single ‘When The Love Rots Out’.

Recorded by Paul McInally at 45 A-Side Recordings, and released last Friday (June 12), the two-minute ‘When The Love Rots Out’ is both emotive and stirring, as it traverses layers of shimmering percussion and guitars, mixed with samples, to create something hyonotically beautiful - and way too short!

“'When The Love Rots Out’ was written about similar situations that both of us have experienced in the past during toxic relationships and the journey that we both have taken to try and get over it," they say. "From the initial over-analysing of every conversation, running through every possible alternate scenario thinking about what you could have done different and blaming yourself, to that love eventually rotting away and the realisation that as much as you would love to be comforted by this person, you deserve better.

"Unfortunately, these feelings stick and resurface when you least expect it, ‘When The Love Rots Out’ is our way of channeling them into something creative."

Listen below.

The Wound Review · When The Love Rots Out