The latest track from the Cambridge emo outfit's forthcoming debut album is all about the strangeness when love is no longer there
Next month, Cambridge's Lonesome will release their debut album, In The Hope This Finds You. Big fans of continuity and seamlessness, the tracks all flow into one another, and even fit around their previous EP and single. It starts and ends with the same droning note, for uninterrupted repeated spins.
Even the tracklisting forms a sentence: “Liar, save your words - can you hear me when I speak to you? You say it's love; we are sleepless. Am I failing myself, for we are strangers again? You are nothing, just like you wrote to me.”
Strange as it might seem, then, to listen a track in isolation, it's also worth checking out new preview, For We Are Strangers Again, to hear what else is in store. A frail meditation on the vacuum that appears at a certain point where love gets lost, it's as desolate as the band's name.
“This is the heartbreak that doesn’t shout but lingers-found in half-meant touches and words that no longer reach," they explain. "'Kiss me softly when you speak in tongues' captures the ache of being misunderstood by someone who once knew you best, while the repeated plea to 'pretend' becomes a fragile shield against the truth.
"It’s not the end that hurts most, but the hollow in-between-where love remains in gesture, but not in meaning. 'Sometimes loving you could be the end of a dream' lands like a final breath, marking the quiet moment where memory begins to blur. In the end, For We Are Strangers Again is less a breakup song than a eulogy for something already gone-tender, distant, and unflinchingly honest.”
