Glasgow-based twin-sibling duo Cloth (Rachael and Paul Swinton) recently announced their new album Pink Silence, out 25 April via Rock Action. Alongside this announcement, the duo shares their latest single/video ‘Golden’, on the painful aftermath of a broken relationship.
“I remember writing the main chorus guitar hook of this song, Rachael adding a chord accompaniment, and me saying to her “this songs needs to sound like Talking Heads!” I think that plan of action maybe got a bit lost along the way, but it’s still one of the album’s most musically upbeat moments, with a great hi-hat-driven beat in the chorus and a bridge which might be my favourite of any Cloth song. The song deals with the tough breakdown of a relationship, and the feeling of that loss being so difficult to reconcile with you’d rather have never fallen in love at all. There’s a line in the song, ‘that scar on my wall, where all of those photographs remembered us falling” which came from me staring at my bedroom wall and seeing the faint outlines – the ‘scars’ – of where photos of really meaningful memories used to be stuck on. That seemed to me to be a really powerful image, even though, in a sense, there’s nothing to look at anymore.”
Paul Swinton
Cloth is currently on tour. Check out the dates below:
4 March – Forum, Tunbridge Wells, UK
5 March – Boiler Room, Guildford, UK
6 March – Esquires, Bedford, UK
7 March – The Gregson Community & Arts Centre, Lancaster, UK
8 March – Sugarmill, Stoke, UK
10 March -17th – SXSW, USA
22 March – Mac Arts Centre, Galashiels, UK
29 March – Tunnels, Aberdeen, UK
17 May – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK **
** = Supporting Mogwai
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