Fievel Is Glauque have dropped ‘Love Weapon’, a new track from their sophomore full-length Rong Weicknes. It follows lead single ‘As Above So Below’, and you can check it out below.
“Songs can do more than ‘express,’” the duo’s Zach Phillips said in a statement. “They can divine, probe, find what’s not searched for. I wrote ‘Love Weapon’ with Sarah Smith for our band Blanche Blanche Blanche in early 2011. It’s my favorite recording on the album, and the one where the collage-editing of the live-in-triplicate recording approach sings the loudest. Blanche Blanche Blanche never really got our due, in large part because we didn’t want to. Does Fievel want to? No decision rendered, we seem to just bracket the question and keep working, building that uncertainty into the material. ‘How much love is enough now?’”
Ma Clément added: “If an original language — one that our bodies know and that we can all understand not intellectually but physically — exists, the lyrics of Love Weapon are written in that language. We played the song in another Fievel band 5 years ago, those recordings hidden among many others. It reappeared in summer 2023, in the same way that I recently found by lucky accident an old photograph between the pages of the book I’m reading.”
Rong Weicknes, the follow-up to 2022’s Flaming Swords, arrives October 25 via Fat Possum.