Slate preview forthcoming debut EP with new single, "Shade In Me"

"Shade In Me" is a song of compassion. It’s a double entendre: offering refuge for someone, whilst also acknowledging that this shade also implies an internal darkness. The band were inspired by a speech from Chung Mong-hong’s film A Sun (2019), and a monologue where the character talks of how his friends can always find shade to shelter from the glaring absurdities of life, but he can never find it himself. He can’t hide from the sun.

Expanding further on it, vocalist Jack Shephard says: "When someone needs refuge, you can offer them your shade. The song itself, ended up gentler in sound compared what we have been used to writing. Sentimental songs like this one can make you feel vulnerable. But perhaps that is appropriate for a song about opening up yourself for someone."

Produced by long-time collaborator Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard's Tom Rees, Deathless begins in a dream state of hypnotic repetition on lead single, "Remoter Heaven".

Recorded in one take, the narrative across the EP's six tracks takes place within a single room - or, perhaps, one mind. It begins with what the band feel is some of the darkest material they will ever write, to reaching, in its second half, a place of transformation and epiphany. On the EP's vinyl edition, the lyrics are written out like a diary entry, each one penned in another member's hand.