All Ears Avow have shared their huge new single ‘Bird On A Wire’, a reaction to the atrocities humankind is capable of.
Produced by the band’s own vocalist and guitarist Claire Sutton, the Swindon quartet’s latest track is a must-listen for any fans of huge hooks and earworm melodies.
Speaking on ‘Bird On A Wire’, Sutton has shared:
“’Bird On A Wire’ is a song that practically wrote itself in the space of a short afternoon.
“I found myself in a headspace of just feeling rather sick of what the human race – our species that’s meant to be so intelligent – was capable of. Maybe I’d gotten particularly caught up watching the news that morning. It was everything from the absolute atrocities going on across the world, the wars, mass murder, school shootings, climate change, animal cruelty, human cruelty – and how so often we just look the other way and keep going about our business as if we don’t even notice our world is on fire around us.
“This song doesn’t come from a place of self virtue, more of shock at the entire situation, guilt and powerlessness. I love the metaphor of a ‘bird on a wire’ to encompass what this song is about, because most of us are all so safe on our perch, but if we were to take one step in the wrong direction it could have catastrophic consequences. It means, however good we’ve got it, we should be minding our actions. We are all complicit and actions have consequences.”
The track comes alongside a video self-produced by the band too, check it out below.
All Ears Avow will be out on tour across the UK this spring and summer.
Check out a full list of upcoming dates below.
5th May – The Black Prince, Northampton
16th May – The Cobblestones, Bridgwater
17th May – Creative Space, Basingstoke
18th May – The Bear Cave, Bournemouth
26th June – Subside, Birmingham
27th June – O’Riley’s, Hull
29th June – The Victoria, Swindon
17th August – The Lamb, Marlborough