The stormy, theatrical Brighton post-punkers Opus Kink are still a couple of months away from releasing their debut album The Sweet Goodbye, but they're in blitz mode, releasing a bunch of early singles. We've already posted their songs "I'm A Pretty Showboy," "Come Over, Do Me Wrong," and "The Head Tree." Today, they share the LP's title track, and it brings the same level of swirling drama as all those other joints.
Like all those other Opus Kink singles, "The Sweet Goodbye" doesn't cleanly fit into any genre buckets. It's got gnarled-poetic hungover-rasp vocals, spaghetti-western guitar, gasping keyboards, and junkyard percussion. It's a lot to take in, but I'm enjoying the fact that there's at least one young buzz band that's going for some Tom Waits shit. Here's how frontman Angus Rogers explains the song in a press release:
A man sings a lullaby to his love, his heart’s instrument, his medium of choice on the eve of their parting. Tomorrow they will bid one another goodbye but not before delivering a last message to the world that made them. The big man once said parting is such sweet sorrow… lift the pen, turn the peg, climb the clocktower, take aim, give everything.
Kyle McCarthy and Reuben Davies Lindley directed the video for "The Sweet Goodbye," and it goes hard on quasi-military imagery. Watch it below.
The Sweet Goodbye is out 7/31 on So Recordings.
