The Australian rock band, Hands Like Houses, share their new single and music video for the song, “Space.”
Vocalist Trenton Woodley explained in a press release that “Space” captures “a mentally and spatially suffocating time for the band experience while recording.” He personally found himself going through motions, dealing with exhaustion, and ultimately trying to push through life, while also feeling he was coming up short of other people’s expectations. The track captures what he was feeling and “a literal cry for the breathing space he needed.”
“I think the song really captures that pressure we felt having to refine our raw ideas and work through our differences in taste and personality while recording,” he says in a press release. He adds, “It’s strange that that sense of emotional claustrophobia has fast-forwarded to this literal one with COVID-19. Since we tracked it, I haven’t actually read the lyrics written down until now and there’s a strange sense of deja vu, like I wrote them yesterday, with full knowledge of everything that’s happened in the last few months.”
He finishes by noting: “I wanted it to feel tired, not hopeless, worn out but not ready to give up just yet. I didn’t want it to sound like I’d stopped trying. I wanted it to feel like coming out of a long silence, to say ‘please be patient. I can get this right. I just need a little faith, a little trust, and a little bit of space to get myself back together.'”
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