Cloth, the Glaswegian duo of twin siblings Rachael and Paul Swinton, have announced a new album: Pink Silence is out April 25 via Rock Action. The follow-up to 2023’s Secret Measure includes the previously released single ‘Polaroid’, as well as a new track, ‘Golden’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
The gentle, heartfelt ‘Golden’ “traces how it feels to grapple with the breakdown of a relationship, and wade through the aftermath,” according to a press release. Paul explained:
I remember writing the main chorus guitar hook of this song, Rachael adding a chord accompaniment, and me saying to her “this songs needs to sound like Talking Heads!” I think that plan of action maybe got a bit lost along the way, but it’s still one of the album’s most musically upbeat moments, with a great hi-hat-driven beat in the chorus and a bridge which might be my favourite of any Cloth song. The song deals with the tough breakdown of a relationship, and the feeling of that loss being so difficult to reconcile with you’d rather have never fallen in love at all. There’s a line in the song, ‘that scar on my wall, where all of those photographs remembered us falling” which came from me staring at my bedroom wall and seeing the faint outlines – the ‘scars’ – of where photos of really meaningful memories used to be stuck on. That seemed to me to be a really powerful image, even though, in a sense, there’s nothing to look at anymore.
Commenting on the title of the new album, the duo said: “This idea of pink silence describes the early morning or later in the evening, when you get this sort of strange ethereal light in the sky. It can mean one of two things; something which feels blissfully serene or something charged with a real sense of foreboding. We loved the idea that something so natural, beautiful and all-pervasive could have such an intense duality to it.”
Pink Silence Cover Artwork:
Pink Silence Tracklist:
1. Pink Silence
2. Polaroid
3. Stuck
4. Golden
5. The Cottage
6. It’s A Lot
7. I Don’t Think So
8. Stones
9. Burn
10. Write It Down