“Tak[es] the nineties-inspired fuzzy rock energy of debut So Green and add[s] a darker edge to create something full of brooding swagger.” That’s what we wrote back in April about Spring Skin, the forthcoming EP by Brooklyn’s SUB*T. Lead single ‘Unearthly’ showed how Jade Alcantara and Grace Bennett are evolving SUB*T beyond their previous releases, adding extra weight and shadow than fans might expect to conjure a world ominous yet inviting. “A dark fairytale journey,” as the band themselves put it, and one which the EP promises to continue.
Latest single ‘That Kind of Night’ might not be quite as edgy as its predecessor, though its calmer, reflective progression builds an atmosphere of its own. Solitude is presented both as a stillness and turbulence, the exterior inaction only exacerbating interior turmoil of frustration and longing. “It’s that kind of night when everyone I see has better things to do / They’re going out and I’m sitting alone again,” go the opening lines, “That kind of night when I would say yes to anything / What’s my life but waiting on an invite?” The band say the song is based around a very specific experience, but is more generally “about being inside of yourself and looking out at the world, wondering about your place and what kind of people you’re missing out on and who you want to connect with. Just one of those moments when you don’t know why you are the way you are!”
Check out the video directed and shot by Alcantara and Bennett along with Jackie Young below:
Spring Skin is out on the 21st June via If This Then Records.