Drahla Explore Euphoria in the Darkest Moments on New Single “Under the Glass”

The Leeds-reared art-rockers return with a new track and news of a short UK tour.
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Drahla Explore Euphoria in the Darkest Moments on New Single “Under the Glass”

The Leeds-reared art-rockers return with a new track and news of a short UK tour.

Words: Mike LeSuer

Photo: Courtesy of the band

August 22, 2022

It’s been three years since Leeds-formed art-punks Drahla released music—or toured it, for that matter. It’s all the more exciting, then, to hear that the band is soft-launching their next chapter today with news of a short run of dates in the UK along with sharing a new single “Under the Glass,” which turns the dark post-punk of their debut LP Useless Coordinates inside out with its unpredictable and fairly experimental leanings and an erratic sax solo lining the full track.

“‘Under the Glass’ represents a moment of creative reconnection, almost a sense of euphoria in the darkest moments—an awaited, yet slight, respite from reality,” the band shares. ‘The song is a collage, reworking early ideas from 2020 with newer work—bridging the gap of time, in the literal sense as well as musically. The lyrics are deliberately vague, using metaphor to interpret personal experience and emotion of loss and grief.” 

The band continue on to note that it’s the first single from a forthcoming sophomore album with Captured Tracks, which is mostly unwritten at this point. For now you can stream “Under the Glass” here, and find their first list of tour dates in precisely 992 days here.