The track is from their upcoming new album Happy, smiling and Living the Dream.
Always more than happy to push the limits of their unique melting pot of sounds, Swansea’s Hot Mass continue to experiment with reckless abandon on their spacious and immersive new single ‘A Literal Century’.
The track builds gradually, with reverb-soaked guitars easing you in before picking up steam and providing more of the hard-edged alternative rock that we’ve come to expect from the outfit. There are moments of spoken word, and even a section of overlayed voices, reciting a poem by French writer Victor Hugo, all conspiring together to contribute to this feeling of chaos on this track wrought with emotional depth and chaos. This is a really distinctive track from the outfit and a change of pace from what we’ve come to expect, but it continues to highlight the guile and creative imagination of Hot Mass, and sets them apart as a band without any real kind of fear or sonic boundaries.
“Here the story focuses around the time I helped take hundreds of books to a recycling plant.” Hot Mass say of the track. “I thought about all of the information and stories that were falling to the ground and that maybe one day all of the words would be pulped and rearranged to form a new story.”
