Listen to Basement’s “ethereal” new single, Head Alight

Basement have shared another track from next month’s long-awaited album WIRED.

Entitled Head Alight, the returning alternative rock faves’ latest effort “started out as a love song” and then “quickly evolved into something a lot more ethereal” according to vocalist Andrew Fisher.

“Alex was picking up on what I was saying in a far broader and otherworldly way,” the singer continues. “He saw it less in a romantic way – a more universal look at the idea of someone’s soul or essence being so powerful and beautiful you can’t look away. This really excited me because it allowed me to get out of my head and focus on something way more abstract and therefore, hopefully more expansive.

“I hadn’t really approached songwriting like this before and I found it really fulfilling. We were really stuck with this sound – focusing on the guitar leading it, in a very indie rock early ’00s thing. It just never felt right. The more we added, the less I liked it. John stripped everything back and it became so much more powerful.”

Watch the video for Head Alight below:

Catch Basement live at both legs of Outbreak Fest this summer – they headline the Bowlers Exhibition Centre in Manchester on June 28, and then appear at Victoria Park in London for the All Points East crossover on August 23.

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