The gloomy indie boys take us back to the eighties
White Lies are back, and we’re very happy about it. Their new single is called Take It Out On Me, and it’s an uber-catchy little gem of a synth-pop track with a pretty interesting back story. Bassist and lyricist Charles Cave is able to explain it better than we can:
‘Right up until we recorded the song it was called 89-1-3,” he says. “It was inspired by a lunatic on Instagram who kept commenting on a friend’s photos in pseudo-Biblical verse. From his profile, I discovered he lived in a remote cabin with a rough-looking dog. He posted weird videos in which he quoted random numbers. As a challenge, I turned them into a song. The only problem was that it went so well everyone said it should be the first single, so I relented and gave the chorus real lyrics.’
So that’s that then.
