Hailing
from Watford, the young indie-rock outfit are showing increasing promise,
gaining airplay from a number of London-based tastemaker radio stations on
their debut single, and above all, conquering esteemed venues such as The Camden Assembly and The Water Rats.
Passive now return with refined
second single ‘Like This’. They craft a track effervescing with sparkly
youthfulness; moving with strutty grooves pasted with frontman Elliott’s husky
tones. The underlying lyricism strikes a chord with anyone who’s looked back on
a relationship they’d tried again and again to save, yet in the end, had found
those efforts to be in vain.
Elliott
elaborates further on the single; "Like
This was the first of a bunch of songs that I wrote about a particular
relationship a long time ago. At the time of writing, I thought it had
quite a positive or hopeful meaning; that "when [relationships are bad]
it’s like this", "I'll do what I do best [to fix things of
course]". Upon reflection I may have been putting my head in
the sand a little, and we wanted the album art to represent this. The
Burial of Atala by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson depicts a man
who's closing his eyes, gripping her legs and hoping for the best. There's a
dreamy element to the song; "let your mind go, step out of limbo", so
we chose to pixilate his partner to show that she's disappearing and becoming a
dream."
‘Like This’ will be out on all
platforms from the 30th November 2018.
Be sure to keep up with all the latest from PASSIVE on Facebook