Cloth announce their forthcoming album, Pink Silence

The album follows the recent single, "Polaroid", released last year, marking their first new music since their Scottish Album Of The Year Award nominated 2023 album, Secret Measure.

"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," says Paul Swinton. "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."

On Pink Silence, a more instinctual approach to writing was adopted. They wanted to let the songs be what they were going to be, rather than pulled into a certain shape. The results feel absorbing and natural, fitting rather well with what the band wanted to draw from the title Pink Silence.

"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," the duo explains.