Jerkcurb detail forthcoming album, Night Fishing On A Calm Lake

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Speaking on the new track, Jacob Read offers: “Death Valley Morning Dew refers to this literal image I had in my head of something fresh in the driest place on earth. It’s about the duality between the expanse of the outside world, nature & sprawling landscapes, and the claustrophobia of an interior, the concrete walls of an infirmary. The differences between the outside and inside aren’t so easy to distinguish. Nor are they literal. You can be anywhere in the world but a prisoner in your own brain.

I was stuck in this purgatorial state, not sure which route to take, plagued by anticipatory grief and motionless anxiety. It was never intended to be a single, there is no chorus, instead it moves through different sections, the different routes of a journey, some utopic, natural beauty, others depressing, hellish. The only repeating moment in the song is the first line, making the whole journey feel cyclical.”

In the accompanying video to the single, Read stars in a transfixingly surreal film noir, digging a hole into his kitchen floor and searching through the void. Director Peter Eason Daniels here: 'The video was Inspired by William Lyttle also known as the Hackney Mole Man who said "I'm just a man who loves to dig"’

The origins of Night Fishing On A Calm Lake can be traced back to the first few months of 2020. Read had released his debut album the previous autumn – Air Con Eden – which had been the culmination of nearly a decade's worth of finely tuned world building.

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