Over recent months we’ve been sharing a number of singles from Will Orchard‘s forthcoming new album, Behind the Shadow Glass. ‘Down‘ represented “a dream-folk track which preaches the benefits submission within an overwhelming world, complicating the lines between playfulness, sadness and acquiescence,” we wrote of the lead single. ‘Nothing Fog‘ on the other hand offered “a decidedly sincere style to explore a sense of uncertainty,” as we described, “its confessional tone unafraid of revealing its own vulnerabilities and loss of confidence.” Then there was ‘Something’s Gotta Go‘, a song which, as we put it, “finds Orchard with his sleeves rolled up as he digs through the dirt. Crunchy Americana meets Neil Young folk rock which sees him picks through internal knots and tangles that have been tripping him up over the years.”
With the release of Behind the Shadow Glass fast approaching, Will Orchard has now returned with new single and album opener, ‘In The Shadow of Their Dark’. A rich and fond slice of folk rock which blooms like a slow-dawning epiphany, Orchard’s vocals building in conviction along with the rhythm, as though emerging through long years-worth of accumulated doubts to embrace a preferred state of being. “I wrote ‘In The Shadow of Their Dark’ while feeling deeply anonymous in a new city,” he explains. “When you don’t feel intertwined with a place, you feel like a stranger. This song embraces that feeling of invisibility and loneliness. It made it all the more freeing to leave that place, and helped me to remember that life is impermanent and nothing is certain. There’s a certain magic in that reminder, when it encourages you to be your truest self.”
