Sunglasses For Jaws announced their new album way back in January with “Walk Me Home”, but the London-based project are now just a month or so away from the release of Everybody’s Made Of Bones. To keep the excitement up, they’ve shared a new song called “What Does It Look Like”, with vocalist Olivier Huband saying:
“We ask questions for the purpose of getting answers, and if your question remains unanswered, you’ll just keep asking the question. Over and over. And we, humans, love to ask questions as much as we like to find answers. ‘What does it look like’ is a broad, vague, all-encompassing question that has a million different answers. Everything can be everything, anything can be anything. It’s a question that speeds into the highway eternally, picking up information and passengers and ideas and thoughts along the way. It’s everything that appears on your tv screen, on billboards, in your dreams, behind your eyes, the incessant overload of visual and psychological stimuli. It’s the coke can and the wet soil, and everything in between. Don’t try and answer this particular question. Trust me. The pursuit is a hell of a lot more fulfilling than the destination.”
“What Does It Look Like” unfurls a series of questions across spectral organ, curious marimba and shifting psychedelic sounds, but Sunglasses For Jaws aren’t interested in answering any – they only want us to wander with them into their grotto of weirdness. The endless questions avoid inanity thanks to Huband’s deep and rich voice, his mouth wrapping itself around each and every word as he spews them into the kaleidoscopic soundscape. Sunglasses For Jaws add sultry sax and soulful backing vocals, which buzz around the song like inquisitive insects, demanding your attention and luring you deeper into this doomed quest for knowledge.
Sam T Watson directed the video for “What Does It Look Like”, which you can watch below.
Sunglasses For Jaws’ new album Everybody’s Made Of Bones comes out on June 4 via Pony Recordings. You can find the band on Facebook and Instagram.
