Last month we previewed I can feel an ending, the new album from Evan Brock’s Laika Songs. Developing the style set out on debut Slowly Spiraling Towards the Light while charting new sonic territory, the release gathers a band featuring Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) on guitar, Dominic Angelella (Hop Along, mewithoutyou, Lucy Dacus) on bass, Dan Bailey (Father John Misty) on drums and Heaven Schmitt (Grumpy) with supporting vocals, who together help Brock build a sound which encompasses both the organic and the digital. “A sound fitting for a record all about the slow, circuitous process of self-discovery,” we wrote, “where the truth is something caught in glimpses when you least expect it.”
With the album now out, Laika Songs has returned with new single ‘Shaking’. Predecessor ‘Visitor’ was a track we described as “embracing confusion and clarity as two parts of the same whole, though always reaching for those small glimmers where the path forward is revealed,” and ‘Shaking’ follows a similar tone. A song loaded with searching emotion, looking for answers to questions too large to otherwise put into words. “I wrote the lyrics to this song shortly after losing one of my friends and longtime musical collaborators,” Brock explains. “I didn’t tell anyone what the song was about when we were making it, but I like to think some of the sounds Meg made, are the sounds of my friend floating around out there.”
You were going for it
Full send
Though you weren’t given a choice
What’d it look like from up there?
