Today may be a good day to take a mental trip across the pond, if only for a chipper three minutes. U.K. post-punks Yard Act have you covered with a free getaway in the form of “Peanuts,” half of which is spoken word recited over guitarist Sam Shjipstone’s grandfather Ronnie “The World’s Most Famous Whistler” Ronalde’s performance of “In a Monastery Garden.” It’s almost enough to deflate the tension of the no-wavey gender-swapped murder ballad.
“While ‘Peanuts’ is quite clearly about a woman killing her imaginary husband, it’s also about accepting that we don’t all see the world in the same way,” vocalist James Smith shares. “It feels to me that divisions are getting more extreme. We’re continually squeezing what should be a wide ranging spectrum of opinions and beliefs into two immovable castles towering either side of an unelected, unaccountable line in the sand. We’re all so scared about getting something wrong that we share mantras in the form of failsafe memes rather than asking ourselves, and each other, the hard questions. We’re so certain we’re right that we can’t comprehend why someone else could see the world differently to the way we do.”
Whelp, guess we’re back to our political reality. Stream the new single below.
