Divorce have shared the latest single from their upcoming debut album, in the form of ‘Antarctica’ – listen to the track below.
In September, the Nottingham band announced details of ‘Drive To Goldenhammer’, their first studio album. The 12-track record will be released on March 7, 2025 via Gravity/Capitol and you can pre-order/pre-save it here.
Now, they have shared ‘Antarctica’, a warm, woozy, autumnal track based around warped, breezy guitar lines and reflective lyrics from singer Felix Mackenzie-Barrow. Check it out here:
Speaking about the song, Mackenzie-Barrow has said: “I wrote ‘Antarctica’ at the end of a long and deeply important relationship as a way to self-soothe and make sense of the loss I was feeling whilst touring non-stop. Thinking of the silent indifference of that vast continent at the bottom of the world was and still is something of a meditation for me. Barry Lopez describes Antarctica as ‘utterly remote, even as you stand in it. The light itself is aloof.’
“The song also recounts an event that Tiger [Cohen-Towell, bassist] and I experienced, encountering a newborn calf in the middle of the road on a late night drive. It felt urgent; the calf’s defencelessness was impossible to ignore and we carried it back into the farm. There was a choice there. Did we rescue it from the road where it could have been hit by a human in a car or did we just send it back to be killed by a different human further down the line?
“Neither option feels good or makes any sense to me, but the feeling of its fur covered in afterbirth and the desperate cries of its mother is something I will never forget.”
‘Antarctica’ follows on from September’s ‘All My Freaks’, a sparkly, synth-laden song that examined egos within the music industry. Previous singles include ‘Gears’ and ‘My Room’.
‘Drive To Goldenhammer’ was recorded at Real World Studios in Wiltshire with producer Catherine Marks (Boygenius, Foals, Wolf Alice). According to a press release, the LP explores “themes of transformation”, and contains “heart-on-sleeve sentiments and tongue-in-cheek humour, devastation, playfulness and all-consuming feelings”.
The band explained in a joint statement: “We’re very proud of ‘Drive To Goldenhammer’. We got to make an album the way we wanted to, kept the weird parts in, followed the warmth and didn’t overthink it.
“This album pays homage to seeking place and home; one of the great human levellers. Much of life feels at odds with this particular need. And to Goldenhammer; you are a reason to keep driving. We will find you again and again!”
Divorce have also been confirmed as one of the support acts for The Maccabees’ huge reunion show at All Points East 2025, which is taking place on August 24 in London’s Victoria Park.
