Annuals - Brother

Beginning like some sort of meeting of minds, with all of the eloquence of a book club, the music casually meanders along. The vocals dance along with the gentle guitar and the sounds of nature and strings. When summer comes round, try putting your pillow in the freezer before you go to bed, the feeling of bliss and calm when you rest your head on the pillow, is just like the beginning of this song.

The song gradually builds up to a crescendo of chaos and an orchestra onslaught. It’s the cats’ pyjamas. The lyrics poetic, the music vicious and passionate. Annuals want you to sit up and fucking listen, and you should.

It all calms down a bit, so that the conclusion of the parable can be delivered, and so their work is done, and they can go off on one again.

This song goes to show that you don’t need the formulaic verse, chorus, verse. In fact it just goes to show that you don’t even need a chorus. Good, honest, proper music, just like a good honest, proper meal, easy to digest and leaving you wanting more.

It defies logic that a 3 minute song can be an epic, but this is. Taking you from lying down, resting your eyes on your frozen pillow, to the upper echelons of elation, pinned against your ceiling, not wanting the music to stop.

The album will be out on the 18th of June, whilst this single is out the week before, on the 11th.


Here is the video…..