Earlier in the year, Bristol slackers Langkamer released their second album, The Noon and Midnight Manual, on Breakfast Records. An album which found “the sweet centre of a Venn diagram of twangy Americana and insouciant indie rock” as we put it in a preview, offering catharsis from the depressing mundanity of contemporary living.
With a tour fast approaching this December, the outfit have returned with ‘Jenny’, a new single which encapsulates the Langkamer vibe perfectly. “Silver in the city and I’m dragging my heels, walking home in the morning mist,” go the opening lines, setting out the downbeat tone. “And if I could I’d tell you what it cost / but Jenny that’s a long, long list.” A sense of guilt or something like it hangs like a fog over our narrator. A desire to come clean matched only by the fear of what that would reveal.
“’Jenny’ is a song about vulnerability and self-defence,” the band explain. “About the walls that some people put up around themselves to try and stay safe. Some people have this veneer of bravado and distance, but it only serves to make them weaker and more vulnerable.”
Jenny, if I let you in now you’re gonna fucking kill me