Strange Company - Do You Feel Numb?
- Kayleigh
- 21 hours ago
- 2 min read
South Wales alt rockers release brooding single 'Do You Feel Numb?'
Strange Company have unveiled their dark and brooding new single 'Do You Feel Numb?'. Known for their high-energy emo-punk with emotionally charged modern rock, Strange Company are an act that are expertely combining nostalgic hooks with contemporary grit. The bands raw emotional take on songwriting could quite easily come from forming in lockdown but they combine the honest lyrical take with catchy elements making them a band I'm very excited to have discovered. New single 'Do You Feel Numb?' is about how it's not always easy to be the person you want to be and the track itself almost didn't see the light of day.
"'Do You Feel Numb' is built around a line I still find hard to say out loud "I'm scared I'm turning into everything I've been running from". Spend long enough avoiding your fears and you end up giving them all your focus anyway. The person I want to become is scary too, because of everything I'd have to overcome to get there. The song is also about chasing the numbness like it's the finish line, only to get there and find nothing waiting for you. The pain stops, but so does everything else, and what's left just feels hollow. DYFN almost didn't survive. It started as an '80's pop-rock demo and got shelved, only getting a second chance when we all sat down together to make the decision to delete it forever but saw something special there. As we tore it apart and rebuilt it, our guitarist, Owen said something that stuck with me: the song doesn't belong to us, we're working in service of it. From there we dropped everything we thought we knew about the song and put weeks of work into writing it the way it deserved to be written. That's what it took to turn it into the punchy, bleakly honest emo rager it is today" - (Matt Davies, Vocalist, Strange Company)
With vibrant guitar work, a stunning emo rock vocal and drums that could easily fit on a metalcore track 'Do You Feel Numb?' is the perfect combination of emo nostalgia with a modern heavy edge. The song has a huge atmosphere and catchy lyrics that would make it great for a live setting or just putting on in your earphones while taking a run or walk. I love the way it acts as an emo piece but with that contemporary heavy edge and this is a track that I will definitely be coming back to listen to again and again.
Listen to 'Do You Feel Numb?' HERE
Strange Company are
Matt Davies - Vocals Owen Weston - Guitar Alef Matthews - Guitar Josef Lovett - Bass Charlie Porter - Drums
Strange Company online
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