Social Animals have released their new single Best Years, via Rise Records.
Watch The accompanying video below, which sees the band presented in black and white as they perform, the hazy visuals reflecting the constant movement of life on the road.
Best Years encapsulates the feeling of putting your life on hold when on tour but those you leave behind moving on with their lives. Frontman Dedric Clark’s lyrics cut through the glamourisation of life on the road, when he proclaims “One too many times when you’re always leaving, nobody cares if you stay. And some nights when I drive, I’m not sure who steers. I can’t tell if I’m wasted or just wasting all my best years.”
Dedric said: Constant travel turns you into a ghost in your own house. The first time you leave, there are tears when you go and tears when you come back. The tenth time, nobody asks where you’re going. The hundredth time, it starts to feel like nobody even cares.
Social Animals’ music is all at once euphoric and melancholy, hazy and expansive. Drawing on influences such as The Cure, Oasis and New Order, the band’s music captures the paranoid uncertainty and optimistic self-delusion that survival in today’s world demands.
