TV Priest return with new single ‘The Mud Never Dries’, their first release in four years.
A superb track that raises the heart rate, ‘The Mud Never Dries’ does have that feeling of trying to get out of dodge, escaping from a hellscape with your wheels on fire. Yet you keep getting sucked right back into the nightmare. TV Priest has featured on this site many times before and once again proves the genius ability to stand out and connect with the listener from the off.
For vocalist Charlie Drinkwater, the track is just that: “‘The Mud Never Dries’ is the most abrasive thing we’ve made, a collision of drum and bass, post-punk, electronic data samples and spoken word that doesn’t settle into any one shape. We wrote it thinking about history as sediment. The way the past doesn’t really leave us. It settles, layer on layer, until we’re walking on ground we don’t recognise but somehow keep retracing. My own history, our shared political one, the same loop, the same refusal to look down or look back. The title felt honest in that way. Nothing dries. Nothing finishes. We keep stepping in it.”
On the topic of the video, he says: “‘The Mud Never Dries’ is about the moment the mask of history slips and we ask ourselves if we’re just doomed to repeat it. We wanted the video to reflect that; it needed to feel free but watched, paranoid, intense, and most importantly unashamed. Shot over an afternoon with my close collaborator Charles Gall it shows me left alone in a dead office space, suit on and shoes off, finally giving in to something animal and letting a performance pour out of me. A body remembering it was never really tame.”
TV PRIEST share new single ‘The Mud Never Dries’
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