A new Pale Honey emerges on the Gothenburg duo's latest single “Set Me Free”

“Set Me Free” sees Pale Honey fill out their music detail, painting in the places where they were previously content to leave space. It takes the driving rock that made up a lot of Devotion, and rewires it to include some synth-dance elements, disco drums and funk ripples in the guitar, making it their most dancefloor-friendly outing yet (it’s easy to imagine where a remix might take it).

“Set Me Free” is inspired by a breakup, and the song is emotionally fuelled by a mix of the listlessness and lost-at-sea feeling that comes from a part of your life coming undone, along with the restlessness and excess of undirected energy that comes from wanting to get back on track, to some kind of normal. Bring all those elements together, and mix it with band’s classic, relentless rock momentum and it makes for one of their best songs yet, and a perfect intro to the new record, pencilled in for next year.

Lodmark says, “To me, the song symbolises the emotions following a recent break-up. I was pissed and bitter, and at the same time regretful and sad. There was also an energy in me that was about to explode. I couldn’t be still, couldn’t sit at home, I had to go out and constantly meet new people. Everything had to happen, and it needed to happen all at once. The danceable element of the song represents the stage in a separation where you’re rediscovering yourself. Or simply going out into the night and not getting home until dawn.”