Sunrot is celebrating their signing to Prosthetic Records with a brand new single called "21%." The single was written and performed a few years back, but never made it onto a release due to its stranger-than-usual nature.
"21% was written a few years ago and has been played live – but we never got around to recording as it's a bit experimental for us – and never saw it fitting on a previous release," said vocalist Lex Santiago. "We definitely tapped into some softer textures and tones and got vulnerable with it and it's refreshing to us to try new stuff while still keeping true to ourselves
"The song uses the story of Icarus as a metaphor for a bipolar cycle of depression, mania, and psychosis. The depression being banishment to the labyrinth, the mania being flying through the sky with wax and feather wings, and the psychosis being the moment he flew too close to the sun and burned up the wings and fell. I experienced this cycle myself in 2018, including hospitalisations which left me feeling like I was never going to be able to get out of institutions and the cycle of pain and terror I was in. It was a long road out of that and this song was really healing to finally put the words to it.
“We really are just a bunch of goofballs with big hearts, that’s why we wanted to release it on Valentine’s Day! Let’s be honest, it’s a day that sucks for most of us so we wanted to remind anyone listening that we love you and will be your Valentine this year if you don’t have one.”
"21%" is available here alongside a noise track called "The Garden."
