The New Eves Share New Single ‘Highway Man’
The New Eves (Credit: Katie Silvester)
The New Eves continue to carve their mythic path in this brooding reimagining.
Brighton avant-folk quartet The New Eves have shared their new single ‘Highway Man’.
The track also arrives with a run of UK festival dates, and news of the band signing with Transgressive Records.
‘Highway Man’ is a retelling of Alfred Noyes’ 1906 romantic ballad from a female lens. Speaking about the song, cellist, guitarist and vocalist Nina Winder-Lind shares: “In the original version it’s this dude, who’s being the dude, and the girl doesn’t do anything and then dies. So I was like, ‘We can’t have that…”
Turning the original narrative on its head, ‘Highway Man’ builds with the intensity and melodrama of a folk horror soundscape. It draws listeners in with organic, laborious vocals, enduring harmonies and instrumentation which drifts between a skulking interplay of bass and percussion and jagged cries of violin and guitar which border on ritualistic. While channelling the energy of doomed lovers, the female-first perspective ensures that the woman does not remain passive. Rather, she haunts, she hunts, she resists.
‘Highway Man’ is positioned as an experimental shedding for The New Eves, a moment in which their natural chemistry flows with minimal inhibition. The accompanying music video further fleshes out the concept with a visceral suspense, which director ALFRED places “…somewhere between the real and surreal - flowing from one moment to another with each frame being its own moment that breathes so much life.”
Watch the video for ‘Highway Man’ below:
Catch The New Eves live at the following festivals:
April 25th - Salutations Festival, Sheffield
May 4th - Sounds From The Other City, Manchester
May 15th - The Great Escape, Brighton
May 16th - The Great Escape, Brighton
May 24th - Dot to Dot Festival, Bristol
May 25th - Dot to Dot Festival, Nottingham
July 31st - Aug 3rd - Wilderness Festival
August 28th - 31st - End of The Road Festival
