Strange Pilgrim Premieres New Track ‘One Day’ Ahead of ‘Too Bright Planet’
The indie rock outfit Strange Pilgrim will release ‘One Day,’ the haunting track from their upcoming sophomore LP this Friday June 20th.
Following this year’s ‘Embers’ EP and their acclaimed 2022 debut, the band returns with a recharged lineup featuring Pat Spurgeon (Rogue Wave, The Dandy Warhols) and Elliott Kay. The additions bring fresh chemistry to the project, while frontman Josh Barnhart continues to anchor the sound with his kaleidoscopic songwriting and multidimensional production.
Josh Barnhart about the new single: ‘One Day’ plays with the idea of affirmation and futility, cycling through hopes that feel more like incantations than actual plans. It is a song about ambition and delay, and the strange comfort of telling yourself that things will change, even when you do not quite believe it. The lyrics repeat phrases that suggest progress, but the repetition reveals a sense of stasis, like someone trying to convince themselves of a future that never quite arrives. That tone is echoed in the music, which began as a home demo built around a looping, slightly discordant programmed beat and a spiraling guitar line. There is something wry in its delivery, somewhere between sincere longing and quiet resignation. It is a way of reckoning with the idea that the life you imagine may never fully materialize, but still insisting on the possibility anyway.
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