Searows – “Dirt”

We're nearing the release of Death In The Business Of Whaling, the new album from Portland singer-songwriter Alec Duckart aka Searows. Following the upbeat folk-rock track "Photograph Of A Cyclone" and the grunge guitar ballad "Dearly Missed," today we get "Dirt," an in-your-feelings slow jam with glittering acoustic guitar arpeggio and drowsy, downhearted vocals that remind me of Phoebe Bridgers. It's mesmerizing, and Duckart has this to say about it:

This song is about inevitability. We all have the knowledge that we and everything around us is finite, and we all have a different way of dealing with that fact. It isn’t something that has ever been comfortable for me, but I can’t spend my life uncomfortable with it. We all inevitably return to the dirt, but you can’t ease the anxiety over it by trying to dig the hole early. If we can acknowledge the end, maybe we can remember we’re alive now.

Watch the "Dirt" video below, where you'll also find the previously released singles.

Death In The Business Of Whaling is out 1/23 via Last Recordings On Earth.