Scotland’s premier providers of sinister darkwave goth stuck their heads above the parapet last week adding their voice to the proliferation of lockdown anthems in a tentative step towards the some sort of return to normality – wearing a mask of course.
The Filthy Tongues Gas Mask Blues is everything you would hope from a Metcalfe composition about the COVID 19 landscape. Electric violin kicks off this moody broodingly hypnotic track. The enigmatic elegant singers understated vocal just breathing out the pithy lyrics. The chorus rises to a near falsetto (in Metcalfe’s terms) before seemingly bringing the track to a halting end.
Snazzy in the Face of Adversity
Then eerie keys herald a spoken word abstract narration about the virus that has changed the world for all of us, ending on the tongue in cheek, “the least we can do is look snazzy in the face of adversity” a comment reflecting the variety of branded facemasks appearing on social media pages these days? The new must have band merch.
The song kicks into the chorus one last time before its faltering exit. Bloody marvellous.
Gas masks all round at the first post lockdown Tongues gig?
If you’ve not partaken yet, its available as a free download, or you could do the right thing and head over to Bandcamp and pay for it…