Conjuring a Sense of Place with Double Grave and New Track “The Moon” [Single Premiere]
“My songs are kind of always half about me and half about other people or my environment,” remarked Jeremy Warden of Minneapolis, MN grungy slowcore outfit Double Grave. “I try to sort of conjure a sense of place and an internal dialogue together.”
Speaking on the band’s latest track “The Moon” — the withdrawn and subdued sophomore single from Double Grave’s forthcoming album Till the Ground, out March 31st, 2022 on Disposable America — Warden told Wormbrain, “This song was written during the summer of 2020. I was living in Minneapolis and the city was literally on fire, horrible injustices and violence taking place every day. Like many people, I was feeling very emotionally charged and struggling to understand what was happening and why, trying my best to help out. This song, and most of the album, is sort of written from this place of literally watching things fall apart, or destroying them yourself, and then attempting to envision what will grow in their place. Till the Ground, etc.”
Double Grave share new single “The Moon” today via W.W:
“Picking out the first single for an album, I usually try to go with what is the most immediately attention grabbing track, like, which one starts off with the biggest splash, because I think about people who will be hearing us for the first time, and I want to get their attention immediately,” Warden said. In comparison to the record’s first offering, the aptly titled “Heavy,” the project’s new song shows the other side of the Double Grave coin. “‘The Moon,’ on the other hand, is a complete flip. It's very chill and slow and I think you need to hear the whole song to fully get it. It is also one of my favorite songs we've done, and I think the steep contrast between the two singles gives a nice full sample of what the album as a whole contains.”
“Till the Ground is our third full album, and it is definitely darker than our last record Goodbye, Nowhere!” Like all good things, Double Grave’s sound continues to contain sonic multitudes. The shoegazing songwriter continued, “Where Goodbye, Nowhere! channeled this sense of wide open sun-soaked spaces, Till the Ground feels more like you're in a dark forest or something. I think similarly to the emotional back and forth of the singles, our discography at large sort of vacillates between these loud, colorful, driving distorted rock songs and then these cleaner somber slow burns, and some mixtures in between. Till The Ground is, for the most part, slower and more somber.”
Photo by Matt Harris
”The names of songs and albums tend to come towards the end of the songwriting or album assembling process,” they told Wormbrain, when asked whether naming songs comes naturally or requires a separate creative mind. “As things are completed the names just sort of appear. They feel kind of obvious by the time I need to choose them, so they always feel satisfying.”
Photo by Trenton Davis
“This song, and most of the album, is sort of written from this place of literally watching things fall apart, or destroying them yourself, and then attempting to envision what will grow in their place. Till the Ground, etc.”
Till the Ground’s album cover may not scream Double Grave or even say it, being a rather dark, nondescript, but deliberate photograph without text. Warden told Wormbrain, “Going back to the ‘sense of place’ in the album, I wanted it to feel very dark and very lonely and isolating, because that's the place everyone around me was in, lock down, societal collapse, isolation. So, visually, I had started thinking of being in the woods, feeling scared and alone, so this image of looking out into this deep darkness became the idea for the cover.”
“One of my best friends, Evan Flom, took the cover photo. He is an excellent photographer and creative who I've known for years, so once I had the idea for the image in my head and I explained it to him I knew he'd come back with something even better,” gushed Warden. “Evan just took all these pictures where you could see a little grass or earth and then just pitch black, and one of them came back all damaged and obscured — that one stuck out to me and became the cover.”
“This album was actually recorded quite a while ago, and I'm excited to peak peoples' interest by sharing that.” Double Grave’s next release may be another quote-unquote “pandemic album” in a few ways, but the ever evolving emo rockers shared, “We are hoping to release a second album this year that we are currently working on that I think, following the last two drastically different albums, will strike a very satisfying balance of our sound.”
Photo by Trenton Davis
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Double Grave’s upcoming Till the Ground LP will be out soon via New England label Disposable America.
