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Slate
Slate
country: UK
genre: Rock
styles: Alternative
St Agatha
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Hot on the heels of releasing their stunning debut single 'Tabernacl' earlier this year via Brace Yourself Records, Welsh quartet Slate return today with its follow-up, the romantic yet road-ready 'St Agatha' - all propulsive, programmed drums, blistering yet gothic guitars and frontman Jack Shephard's distinctive, poetic drawl. As with 'Tabernacl', the single once again comes produced by Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard's Tom Rees.
Of the track, Shephard explains:
"'St Agatha' is the first song we wrote about being Welsh. Though, living in in the south, we each converge at the forefront of anglicisation. At the time of writing, we were indulging in literature, landscapes as well as each another, in an attempt to re-connect with much of our disregarded national identity. So much was left unrevealed to us in school. We read about a churchyard on the border, where some people are buried with their heads in Wales and their feet in England. It was the perfect place to tell the story of a conflicted protagonist. Severed at St Agatha’s, between there and the homeland."
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