That prying feeling in your chest of when your heart rips in half, we’ve all felt it. Belgian alt-rockers Intergalactic Lovers are unafraid to actively court it on their latest single “Crushing”. It’s indeed a crushing, slow-burning break-up song tracing all the little emotions like a scalpel through soft tissue. There are bittersweet elements as well: a bubbly synth flourish that brings some subdued levity to the more forlorn atmospherics, and of course Lara Chadraoui’s velveteen voice. Watch the gorgeous video below, which is rife with spiritual imagery of birth, rebirth, and death.
“Lovers leave but their love never really dies,” Chedraoui says of the track. “Once enclosed in my heart, I find it impossible to stop loving the ones I once let in. We cross and meet people in our lives, we embrace them, and then we have to let them go. Crushing is the feeling everyone on this planet encounters, a broken heart, losing someone, and realizing after a while that every love lost is also a gift in a way, that love and the shared stories never die.”
According to the band, the video for “Crushing” represents the part of a trilogy to count down their upcoming new record Liquid Love. Whether it shows the beginning or the ending is left ambiguous.
Watch the video below or listen to “Crushing” on streaming platforms.
Liquid Love is set to be released somewhere in the first half of 2022. Follow Intergalactic Lovers on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
