Thursday, July 30, 2020

Chartreuse are melancholy on the lovely 'Tall Grass'


Credit: Connor Schofield



Words: Amelia Callister

The Birmingham-based quartet Chartreuse have their second album on the horizon this autumn. ‘Keep Checking Up One Me’ will be out on October 9 via Communion Records, and is preceded by this beautiful, introspective track, ‘Tall Grass’.

"I might take a stroll down to the ocean/feel the water at my feet and the wind at my face/I see stick figures in the distance/will they find me interesting will they show me pity/Will they think I'm mad mad mad..." sings vocalist Michael Wagstaff on the melancholy, plaintive song, which he explains is "about looking both out and in. It explains the world I was in when I wrote it.

"Sitting in a landscape of introvertism, reflection and coming out of myself to be apart of the world, really feeling the anxieties and complexities that come along with it. I imagined someone I love was there being the horizon for me to focus on while I balanced and tried to explain myself.”

Check it out below via Joe Connor's visual, filmed during lockdown using a thermal imaging camera.

Like what you hear? Then scroll down for details of the band's four Instagram livestream shows this week.



Live streams via Instagram on each venue's site, starting at 8pm BST.

JULY
30 BRIGHTON The Hope & Ruin @thehopeandruin

31 LONDON Omeara @omearalondon

AUGUST
01 BIRMINGHAM Hare & Hounds @hareandhoundsbrum

02 BRISTOL Thekla @theklabris

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