Alexander Biggs shares Origins of his new single “Depressing”: Stream
Origins is a recurring new music characteristic the place we give musicians the chance to take us behind the scenes of their latest single launch. At this time, Alexander Biggs reveals why he’s so “Depressing”.
Sorrow has an unlucky manner of redoubling itself. First there’s the ache of no matter is inflicting you to really feel harm within the first place, then there’s the distress of realizing your personal unhappiness is beginning to deliver down these round you. It’s simple to get misplaced in that cycle of magnification, beating your self up over being overwhelmed up. On his new single “Depressing”, Alexander Biggs posits a doable route out of the spiral: tenderness.
Simply as we depend on the empathetic heat of others to assist us by way of powerful occasions, the Melbourne singer-songwriter suggests we should take related heed after we discover how we’re affecting others. “Depressing” ruminates on this light notion, with Biggs singing, “I’m glad you stayed/ ‘Trigger my demons did/ A tiger in a cage/ Eyeing up slightly child.”
As drums frivolously pound and Biggs works his guitar like Sufjan Stevens in his quieter moments, the observe finds a resting peace within the chorus, “Do I make you depressing?” The subject itself could also be unhappy, however simply as with the message tucked inside the phrases, there’s hope laced all through the music. Take a hear through the accompanying music video under.
For extra on what makes him so “Depressing”, Biggs has dug into the Origins of the observe.
Shoreham:
Shoreham seashore retains wandering out and in of my life. There’s a managed campsite there that I head to as soon as in a blue moon, and earlier than I began doing that, the place I shot my first music video — at the hours of darkness, chilly and moist, nearly stepping on snakes. There’s extra caravans than tent websites, and the seashore isn’t so nice to swim in, but it surely’s a stupendous place and has been a beautiful pal to me.
Distress and Pleasure:
Proper after I recorded my second EP early final 12 months I went to a 10-day silent meditation course. Ever since then I’ve been fascinated by the underlying and ever current pleasure in all issues, and the way it can exist below deep ache. I suppose, greater than ever, it’s exhibiting up in my music. The enjoyment won’t be really easy to seek out on this tune, however I feel there may be heat, and musically, a hopefulness within the uncertainty.
The rain:
I like the sensation of being inside a tent or my home when it’s raining closely exterior. It’s usually a sense I channel when visualising a tune. I’m unsure why, however perhaps it’s as a result of it’s such a vivid feeling to me. It takes me to a spot that’s cozy and contained but in addition so huge and long-reaching.
A practice line in Brisbane & the stream of consciousness:
I bear in mind the tune falling out, and I additionally bear in mind eager to seize the intimacy of the query — Do I make you depressing? It’s not really easy to ask that query, I feel, with out being pointed or deconstructive or unempathetic. I wished to ask that query in a delicate manner, tenderly.
A little bit gentleness would clear up lots of issues, I feel.