The voice of Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter and guitarist Alec Duckart appears as a transmission from an alternate reality on his latest single, “Dirt”. Under the moniker of Searows, Duckart will release his new album, Death in the Business of Whaling, on January 23. This latest crystalline, folk-inclined echo follows on the heels of previous singles “Dearly Missed” and “Photograph of a Cyclone“.
Duckart’s acoustic guitar vibrates on alien frequencies, plucks and tones tearing small holes in the fabric of space and time. His voice drifts one way and then another, buoyed by invisible structures that we must assume have taken wild and amorphous shapes in their search for realization.
“This song is about inevitability,” Duckart explains. “We all have the knowledge that we and everything around us is finite, and we all have a different way of dealing with that fact. It isn’t something that has ever been comfortable for me, but I can’t spend my life uncomfortable with it. We all inevitably return to the dirt, but you can’t ease the anxiety over it by trying to dig the hole early. If we can acknowledge the end, maybe we can remember we’re alive now.”
The song comes paired with a stark black and white video courtesy of Karlee Boon and Marlowe Ostara.
Watch the video below.
Death in the Business of Whaling is due out January 23 on Last Recordings On Earth. You can pre-order the album here. Follow Searows on Facebook, X, and Instagram.
