Nation of Language are back with “The Conversation,” the B-side to the band’s 7-inch featuring their cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Tougher Than the Rest” released back in May. “‘The Conversation’ is a song that’s been haunting me for a few years now—one of my personal favorites I’ve written, yet it’s never found a home on an album,” the band’s Ian Devaney said, all but confirming suspicions that the movie-buff trio titled the track after another haunting work of art that remains a personal favorite of its creator after he initially struggled to find it a home.
“It’s extremely contained in the sense that when I write out the lyrics it reads more like a standalone poem than most of our songs,” he continued, “and it dabbles in storytelling in a much different way than I’m used to doing. It’s a vignette, centered around two people whose lives are so intertwined, and have been moving towards this one conversation, this inflection point, where the things that need to be said might finally be said.”
The limited-edition 7-inch that “The Conversation” appears on is still available to purchase here. You can also check out “The Conversation” below.
