The Clockworks share new tune ‘Misplaced In The Second’ for Abbey Highway’s ‘Lock-In’ sequence

The Clockworks have shared a brand new tune known as ‘Misplaced In The Second’ as a part of Abbey Highway Studios’ ‘Lock-In’ sequence – test it out under now.

The Galway band, who're signed to Alan McGee’s It’s Creation Child label, launched their debut single ‘Payments And Capsules’ in 2019, following it with quite a few singles since. Their newest launch, ‘Blood On The Thoughts’, arrived earlier this month.

‘Misplaced In The Second’ was recorded within the spur-of-the-moment on the finish of The Clockworks’ ‘Lock-In’ session at Abbey Highway Studios. “‘Misplaced In The Second’ was initially written on piano however was at all times imagined as a full band manufacturing,” singer James McGregor defined in a press launch.

“We had been in Abbey Highway recording one other tune and I sat on the grand piano in Studio Three and performed this for the band. Over the next weeks, we began work on a band model of the tune. After we returned to Abbey Highway on the tail finish of the evening, somebody had the thought to arrange the piano and a microphone and do a uncooked dwell recording to seize the essence of the monitor.”

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He continued: “This tune was initially three completely different tracks. I realised that thematically it felt just like the three songs had been making an attempt to get at one thing comparable and even the chord sequences for each had been unusually shut. I put the songs collectively and it felt prefer it made sense. I just like the irony of sincerely making an attempt to make a second out of questioning if we’ve misplaced the flexibility to make moments.

“I typically discover that the extra painful the lyrics are typically, the extra playful they are often too. It’s as if one permits the opposite. I feel that affect comes from reveals like Fleabag or The Workplace, the place the funnier they're, the extra it hurts after they turn into unhappy’.” Watch a dwell video of the tune above now.

The ‘Lock-In’ sequence sees artists invited to Abbey Highway Studios to report a brand new interpretation of an current tune or work on a brand new and surprising collaboration. The Clockworks be part of the likes of Fontaines D.C., Django Django, Denai Moore, and Jane Weaver in collaborating within the sequence up to now.

Talking to NME in 2020, McGee mirrored on how The Clockworks first obtained in contact with him. “The band despatched me a message on Instagram, saying: ‘McGee: We’re the punk rock model of The Streets’,” he recalled.

“I believed: ‘Cocky little fuckers! Proper, I’m ’. I like working with ballsy individuals, and so they’re little hustlers. It’s the identical with Cat SFX – in a unique time, she’d be a punk hero. She has sturdy opinions about the whole lot: she’ll have controversial views on the milkman. You’ve obtained to like individuals like that, these are the very best individuals.”