The Amazons have shared a new single called ‘Living A Lie’, which sees them embark on a new musical direction – check it out below.
The single marks the first new material from the Reading three-piece since 2022, when they shared their Top Five record ‘How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?’.
In the intriguing new track, The Amazons start a new chapter with their musical direction – channelling their frustrations about the past and anxieties for the future to create a sound unlike any of their past releases.
While still maintaining the riffs and aggression that first put them on the map, ‘Living A Lie’ sees the band put forward a new level of energy, while frontman Matt Thompson steers his lyricism and vocals into new territory.
“I can’t dream, I can’t hide, I can’t look in your eye / Cos it’s clear to me that we’ve been living a lie / Oh, we’ve been living a lie,” Thompson sings after the atmospheric intro, leading to the captivating chorus. Check it out below.
Discussing the inspiration behind the new single, the frontman said: “‘Living A Lie’ is an ode to staring at the ceiling in the early hours of the morning – when little fictions turn into hard truths in the stillness of the night.”
“We were working on a very different sound before ‘Living A Lie’,” he added. “This song articulated a tone and a feeling that spoke to our lives in a way we hadn’t been able to access previously. An anxiety about the future and a frustration with the past.”
According to a press release, the track “marks the start of a new era which will see a host of exciting new activity over the coming months, into 2025.” More details about upcoming releases are expected to be shared soon.
Back in 2022, ‘How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?’ was given a three-star review, with NME writing: “Thompson channels ‘Into The Wild’-era Eddie Vedder on the acoustic-driven ‘One By One’, which shines as an open-hearted beacon before cutting into a primal bout of garage rock from the Queens Of The Stone Age playbook. Elsewhere, the disco-flecked rock stomper of ‘Ready For Something’ carries the fired-up kind of bite and hunger that truly merits this band’s main stage status.”
It continued: “You might long for more of these moments. ‘How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me’ certainly packs enough mainstream punch to keep the band on their perch as a British festival fixture, while also showing glimmers of what The Amazons are capable of, but it’s hard not to wonder what they’d sound like if they leant further into those more diverse sounds and influences.”
