Funeralcare’s title track to Manchester band’s new Marathon EP (out January 24, 2025) is a curiously upbeat song considering the subject matter. The minimal guitar work, synth drones, the short vocal lines all syncopated finely like something you might have heard out of an early 80s New Wave band. But the production with the ambient synth backdrop and the unorthodox song structure speaks to a sensibility more modern like the members of the band are as much into electronic dance music as into pop and rock. It serves the theme of the song well of having someone in your life who is just a little too much, whose presence you’re realizing is a chore because of the unrealistic expectations and dealing with the aftermath of consistently poor life choices can get to be a real drag that you have to cut loose from that situation eventually if things don’t change. The song isn’t a celebration of finally having had enough to let go as an acceptance of such a need after really giving the relationship, whatever its nature (friendship, romantic, professional) a go. Listen to “Marathon” on Spotify and follow Funeralcare on Instagram.
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