The track is from the artist’s upcoming new collection of tracks Love Crash
A thoughtful new release from an iconic anti-folk artist who’s body of work span across four decades, new Block single ‘I Thought I Won The War’ is a compelling taste of his forthcoming new Love Crash, and pairs his incisive and forthright writing style with an emotionally vulnerable and immersive core.
The track explores the suffocating feeling of realising that you’re not happy in your relationship and that you’re in too deep to find any kind of easy way out. The folky nature of his stripped-back sound and the personality that is etched into his vocals do a great job of conveying these emotions, and provided the artist with a very cathartic and raw platform in which to help him out of a dark place he found himself in. As a result, the track has some really resonating and relatable qualities while feeling deeply personal and engrossing, and continues to highlight what has made Block such an enduring and respected artist for all of this time,
Block explains that his kinetic new single is about a battle he hadn’t expected, from a source he hadn’t predicted. “I was watching lots of World War I documentaries, and realized I was in a romantic relationship I had no business being in. My escape routes cut off, surrounded by enemy forces, the war was on!”
