SOTW #52:CRAWLERS
📸 Jess Mead
What. A. Band.
Where. To. Start!
Holly sings like she’s been performing for fifty years. Fifty years of singing, fifty years of growth and confidence, and fifty years of knowing exactly how to use her instrument and ability to a t. There are so many bands that I wish to but simply can’t connect with, but when it comes to the refined, mature, almost nonchalance of Holly’s delivery I’m right there with them. The stories are palpable, the production techniques are subtle yet massively impactful (Particularly in I Don’t Want It when exciting the chorus and going into the verses.)
CRAWLERS are an absolute force.
Amy Woodall on guitar is utter dynamite, I adore how she isn’t afraid to dance in the minor to create a moody atmosphere for Holly to excel in. Harry Breen is selective and story-serving with all his work behind the kit. Olivia Kettle likes a good sludgy yet defined bass tone that tickles ya heart.
I could go on and on, and I do, in the passionate deep dive video below the song context. Usually such content is only available for Patrons and Subscribers of WWTR, but I’m sharing this for the few that stumble across it as further proof of what makes this band so special to me, and as an example should you wish to sign up and support the community and artists that galvanize our souls.
Holly Minto (vocalist) shared the context with NME.
“‘I Don’t Want It’ encompasses what it is like to be growing up in the current state of society and how it has affected the mental health of the modern generation from a 1st and 3rd perspective.
I have a lot of unhealthy habits that I am very self-aware of, however, they don’t seem to change and seem to manifest into worse problems which I try to ignore, this isn’t really my own issue either, so many of us are aware of our own self-destructive behaviours but we ignore them for the sake of it being easier than recovery. I think the song actually took fruition when my therapist said “you’re very self-aware, aren’t you?
It’s very much a curse that we all, especially gen Z share. Maybe because self-deprecation has become such a normalised thing, which I hate but I can’t help but feed into. Writing it was a good way of me getting out a lot of behaviours I want to change about myself as well as critiquing other behaviours that society tends to normalise while growing up in your teens and early 20s.
As soon as Amy sent me the riff I instantly knew I wanted to get these particular feelings out and create a song with the guys that sounds like the music I am listening to, especially when I am engaging in the behaviours mentioned in the lyrics, which has always been indie with a killer riff and a fat hook – kinda full circle in a way.”
