The result is a track at once uplifting and striking, where the intention behind the sound is left unclear. Because the song is concerned with doubt and uncertainty, and whether the loops of quiet and loud represent a mastery of such emotions or their overwhelming arrival is left up to interpretation. One thing is for sure, the future is unclear and in all likelihood scary, yet Not Fit are plunging headlong into it all the same.

This month saw the release of ‘Naturally’, the third single from Not Fit and the final one before they release their EP, Inside Voices, later this year. Again very much concerned with the tumultuous present, the song picks through a society ruined by greed, bigotry and injustice, looking for clues as to how we might begin to build something fairer and better. The rhythmic bass and drums provide foundations for another urgent track, Tarchi’s vocals compelled on by shimmering guitar lines that rise and fall intermittently.

But unlike the ambiguity of ‘When It Goes’, the final sentiment of ‘Naturally’ is clear. A healthier, fairer and sustainable society will remain a dream in our heads or mirage on the horizon without serious engagement with what has gone before. A collective reckoning with who we are, how we allow the current systems to continued unabated. How change requires responsibility, from each and every one of us.

What makes change?
Say their names
You should know better anyways

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Not Fit have big plans for 2020, with a series of singles set to be released across the year, and last week saw the release of the first track, ‘When It Goes’. Pushed by momentous drums, the track ebbs and flows between reflective verses and the dynamic chorus, its cyclical energy spiraling towards a crashing crescendo. Tarchi’s vocals live up to the style too, sounding clear-eyed in their ruminations and rising to surf upon the growing instrumentation.

The result is a track at once uplifting and striking, where the intention behind the sound is left unclear. Because the song is concerned with doubt and uncertainty, and whether the loops of quiet and loud represent a mastery of such emotions or their overwhelming arrival is left up to interpretation. One thing is for sure, the future is unclear and in all likelihood scary, yet Not Fit are plunging headlong into it all the same.

“Just give yourself to the night sky,
See it’s all made up in your own mind,
So breath with me, it’ll all go
Breath in deep, it’ll all go”

Album artwork by Ethan Rosa

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