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Other Half
Other Half
country: UK
genre: Rock
styles: Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Punk Rock, Noise Rock, Post Hardcore
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Lifted Fingers (Ft Matthew Caws)
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Lifted Fingers is the first single to be taken from Other Half’s third album, Dark Ageism, and finds the band at their most melodic; a dark, spindly indie-rock song featuring Nada Surf frontman Matthew Caws.
“Lifted Fingers is about the commodification of everything and how vital it is to preserve those little darkened corners that aren’t yet dripping in corporate slime, i.e. playing punk music to 30-odd people in the back room of some pub. Someone who came to see us do just that, miraculously happened to be Matthew Caws of Nada Surf, late in 2022. Nada Surf are one of our collective all-timers, and really formative to the music we play, so it means the absolute world that he also contributed some guest vocals here on Lifted Fingers, being the positive retort to all the doom-mongering I do in the first half of the song. I think at it’s heart, it’s a hopeful song, about finding connection amongst all the sludge. In Matthew’s own words, ‘people make stuff, you make your own stuff, and then sometimes you make stuff together. Here’s to making stuff.’
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