Pet Deaths share stirring new single ‘Love Has Won’
Pet Deaths are back with the stirring new single ‘Love Has Won’. The London-based duo deals with out-of-line chakras in a whirling parade of what you might term indie jazz or folk psychedelia, depending on what parlance you prefer.
It’s Pet Death’s first new music since their 2022 album Unhappy Ending. In many ways, it picks up from where that unique record left off. Once again, there is a sweet sense of spiritualism to the sound that they create, where strings underscore an almost house-like beat.
Vitally, their sound is not only original, but it is originality borne from connecting with live audiences in their own way. While touring with the likes of Arab Strap and Midlake, the duo have cemented their own identity and followed that muse to flowing fruition rather than trying to force a point of difference into the creative process.
By doing so, songs like ‘Love Has Won’ feel like a world of their own, almost devoid of the notion that Graeme Martin and Liam Karima created it. To paraphrase Hoagy Carmichael, it feels like ‘Love Has Won’ was simply out there floating in the ether of these troubled times, and Pet Deaths were on the right frequency to discover it.
Yet the mirage-like maelstrom of instrumentation that centres around a piano that plays less of a melody and more of a syncopated beat, masks a rather sinister story from the unreliable narrator crooning away. This cult leader doesn’t quite celebrate love, more so his ability to lord a fallacy of love over those who will listen.
This latest dreamy yet twisted offering (so I suppose dreamy in the truest sense), was honed in the idyllic countryside of Oxfordshire. It was here where the band took a break from the road, and like Jack Kerouac before them, channelled what they had learnt on their tour into new material. Completing the cycle, they are showcasing the new material that stop-off spawned at a show at Rae’s in London on March 21st.
Listen to the new single ‘Love Has Won’ below.
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