Making waves across music media, with appearances across BBC Radio and a host of publications, First Day Of Spring’s brooding sound has tipped them as an up-and-coming talent. The four-piece is currently leading fans towards a seminal second EP, building on the foundations set by their debut, Fly Over Apple Blossom, last year.
After applying their new melodically experimental, alternative and post-punk influences to the recently acclaimed single ‘You’re Blue, I’m Blue’, the band return less than a month later with pensive darkness in ‘The Rising Tide’. Presenting audiences with shadowy and contemplative electric guitar arpeggios, they steadily turn up the energy and the distortion, the firm backbeat and bass line empowering bitter vocals to cut through a sea of overlapping melodies.
The intensity is sporadically cut by distinctly vintage melodic cries, with even the brighter tones carrying a sense of gloom. Remorselessly balancing pain and anger within a dreamlike state, every ounce of optimism is seemingly shrouded in the chugging riffs, unending from start to finish.
“The Rising Tide is about observing your surroundings and finding a place internally,” the band shares, “where you can feel authentic in your own thoughts, beliefs and values without any external deluge of influence. It’s about being an individual. It’s about being strong.”
Listen to ‘The Rising Tide’ below…
