A sea of emotion.
Following the much-loved release of ‘These Days’, Marsicans have dropped yet another beauty! Another track in a long string of bops straight off their forthcoming debut album, Ursa Major… one of the most highly anticipated albums of the year (at least to us anyway).
Trading in their classic indie-anthem sounds for a much more vulnerable take this time, ‘Someone Else’s Touch’ sees the lads at their most sensitive, yet equally, if not moreso best.
This track is said to sit directly in the middle of the album, a midway sea of emotion that allows you to sit back and take note of their songwriting talents.
Speaking on the track, Rob Brander explains, “‘Someone Else’s Touch’ started its life a long time ago, and is the oldest song to make it onto our debut album. It’s also probably the most adventurous song on the record in terms of production. Like many of the things we write, it started life on an acoustic guitar, but at a time when we were trying to push ourselves a little further than six strings. So we borrowed a couple of old keyboards and started building loops and textures that sounded exciting to us. We got so far down a rabbit hole that the first time we played the song to our manager, he laughed. We knew it wasn’t the finished article, but were confident there was something special in the noise, so we committed it to a demo and continued to write new music.”
“After a few years on a hard drive, some fresh perspective, and some crystallizing lyrical additions, we came back to that demo with renewed excitement. Much of the original version still exists within the song, but a magical evening at Rockfield Studios last summer saw the finishing touches to the musical landscaping. Our producer, Mickey Dale, and I came together after a few beers to become a kind of Bradford-Bon Iver for the evening, followed by the only tears of the album sessions as James delivered a beautiful vocal in a darkened corner of the legendary studio. It’s a moment, and an evening that we will always remember very fondly, and we are incredibly proud of ‘Someone Else’s Touch’ as a song, and a marker of our perseverance as a band.”
