The track is from the outfit’s forthcoming debut album Lullabies From The Lightning Tree.
London indie rock outfit Sad Boys Club have been around carving out a name for themselves for what seems like an age now, finding a place for themselves within the fabric of the UK’s indie scene with a whole catalogue of stellar and thoughtful releases, and May 5th will finally see the outfit release their highly-awaited debut album Lullabies From The Lightning Tree.
The lead single from the LP is ‘To Heal Without a Scar (Is a Waste of a Good Wound)’, a track that sees the outfit grappling with reality and the world around them. The track feels exciting and full of life throughout, but builds to this gorgeously cathartic climax that feels all-encompassing and showstopping, with pent up emotion and frustration being destroyed in a wall of noise and chaos. Finding the balance between darkness and infectious catchiness has always been a balancing act that Sad Boys Club excel at, and this track hints that their new album is set to take both of these contrasts and push them to their extremes.
Speaking on the lyrical inspiration behind the new single, vocalist Jacob Wheldon said:
“Sometimes I can have a hard time acknowledging life as reality, maybe I just don’t want to. It often results in bad consequences for myself and those around me which I then use songs to somehow justify – some might argue that makes me a toxic narcissist (/man), I’m not sure I’d disagree. I’m working on it. A lot of this album is about working on whatever ‘it’ is. Getting better? It fell out at the end of a particularly bad period of writer’s block and unblocked a majority of the writing on the record so feels like the only place to begin.”
