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The second single to be cherry picked from their upcoming third album, ‘Soak’, released via Foxfive Records, ‘Insulin’ is a track brimming with demanding self expression, set to the backdrop of grunge laced grandeur.
Characterised by murky guitar riffs, stampeding percussion and spearheaded by vocalist Izzy B. Phillips’ trademark sickly-sweet sleaze, ‘Insulin’ acts partly as a chant, partly as a tirade, but predominantly as a full and earnest unveiling of personal trauma. The songwriting muscles of the band are firmly flexed through beat poetry style stream of consciousness lyrics, and when layered with an ominously serrating guitar lick, serve to result in an anthemic eruption of gothic pop. The single serves as a two-and-a-half-minute long punchy patchwork, which not only details the twinges of tension and romantic upheaval, but also the debilitating effects of a mental and physical imbalance. Such a disequilibrium is viscerally observable when listening to the track, yet in spite of its dysregulated content matter, the single boasts an ornately layered production. ‘Insulin’ can be christened as a tantalising taste of the burgeoning realms of Black Honey’s musical future.
Through the release of 'Insulin’, Black Honey bear their artistic teeth to extents not previously seen before. As such, the single bodes increasingly well for the eventual release of album ‘Soak’, on the 15th of August, with the album promising to be a similarly exciting and impassioned endeavour. Bolstered by a UK album release tour throughout August, it certainly seems that the summer shall be soundtracked by Brighton’s favourite quartet, Black Honey.
Tickets to Black Honey’s upcoming tour can be found here.
