Slothrust are back with their first new music since 2019 with “Cranium”. The track is a one-off single, but hopefully, there’s more coming soon.
Bandleader Leah Wellbaum’s songwriting and guitar work are on full display here. The song is a slow build following Leah’s voice get stronger and stronger as it feels like she is singing directly to you. Asking if you feel nervous, if the current situation hurts you, if you like it, and finally if you’re hungry. As the last question finishes, a soaring guitar solo comes out and floors you.
Leah said of the track
“I think of “Cranium” as an absurd mating ritual dance by one of those beautiful complex birds with iridescent tail feathers. Except instead of feathers I am holding family heirloom tweezers and my hands are coated in honey. It’s sweet, but incredibly uncomfortable and definitely overbearing. The song is about wanting to serve love but not knowing the “right” way to do so— often offering too much, or something unwanted entirely. It is a promise to love both absurdly and impossibly with a heavy sprinkle of pain.
The video has Leah guide you into a mystical world where you see and feel things that may or may not be there. What you’re seeing and feeling though might be just as real as a sunny day in the desert, which is where the video ends.
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