Jack Norrie is the mastermind behind the Captain Crocodile project, making music alongside his live band Aaron Stafford, Emiliano Del Toro and Rohan Kapoor. The band have built a significant core fanbase and is now looking ahead to the release of an EP Moon Presence in the new year.
There’s a real uniqueness to the latest single from the project, ‘Black Lungs’. It’s pained, it’s emotional, and it feels real. The guitars are in contrast to one another, with different layers struggling between bright and dark tones. The vocals feed into this unsettled melancholy, with performances that feel confident and powerful, but carry an innate emotional wobble. As the dreaminess intensifies, the haze is gripping. Once you’re in it, you can’t get out of it, captured in that complexity and ambiguity. It rises and falls but remains atmospheric and rooted in the purity of a disturbed sentiment.
Giving an extra insight into his forthcoming EP and the single, here’s what Captain Crocodile had to say, “The EP in its essence is about the inability to move on, when you get caught up in a vicious cycle of monotony that you aren’t able to break from. In the case of ‘My Black Lungs,’ it’s about my nasty smoking habit I picked up to cope with my anxiety & stress during a year. I felt very displaced and dissociated.”
Listen to the single here…
