In Hearts Wake guide us track by track through their new album ‘Incarnation’, out now via UNFD. Spitting Nails (ǝunʇɹoɟ ɟo lǝǝɥʍ) “‘Spitting Nails’ was one of the final songs written in frost-bitten-Michigan. At that point we all had cabin fever but were still digging deeper in search of gold.
Meanwhile, I was having to lodge the bands quarterly tax documents to keep us all up to date–Uncle Sam never sleeps, not for anyone. Ultimately we choose to be part of the system, but sometimes we can feel like a slave to it–the groundhog day that seems to never end. So it became part of the songs motive and hook: “I’ve paid it over and over again.
. Will it ever fucking end? Murder the System!” Hollow Bone (plɹoʍ ǝɥʇ) “Going through a death-of-sorts with Kyle having left the band, ‘Hollow Bone’ became our reclamation anthem for our band to live on. Since high school we’ve given everything and we weren’t about to give up.
Not yet...
Picking up the microphone as a group, together we delivered a melodic chorus for the first time. We used actual bones as percussive instruments–symbolic of deaths transformation. This track acting as our stake in the ground.
“What would you die for?!”” The Flood (ǝɔᴉʇsnɾ) “ It was February 2022 and torrential rains hit our home region in Northern Rivers NSW. Entire towns swallowed two stories underwater. Homes and lives were lost.
The floods were biblical. My step-dad narrowly escaped out of a second.
