Earlier last month, Get Inuit uploaded a black and white image onto Facebook, depicting a gravestone with the band’s name etched onto it. Fans immediately worried the band had come to the end of its journey…thankfully any rumours of a split were cleared up within days, when a second image was uploaded, featuring a cartoon hand breaking out of the ground beside the gravestone, implying the band were still well and truly alive. In fact, the Kent band could not be further from calling it quits – in addition to a spot as support for Clean Cut Kid’s upcoming tour as well as a handful of festival appearances, Get Inuit have announced their next single ‘All My Friends’.
It turns out the gravestone imagery was all along a visual hint for the theme of ‘All My Friends’; from opening line “All my friends are dead / their corpses lie in beds”, the track could be interpreted as describing the boring lives the singer’s friends now lead caused by decisions made when they were younger, and in effect their lives are now ‘dead’. Opening with their trademark sprightly vibrant, colourful guitar chords, once again the upbeat melodies and feel of the track are deceiving when it boils down to the meaning of the lyrics. The happy vibe continues beyond the first verse, through the inclusion of ‘ah’s’ leading up to the punchy chorus of the track, exclaiming the actually very true lyrics ‘born a child / and it’s terminal’. Despite the overall morbidness of the song’s lyrics, the chorus continues with the positive energetic drive of the song, with both the guitars and drums picking up in excitable pace and ferocity. I always love how the band’s tracks cover deep and dark topics, yet every single other aspect of the track sounds euphorically happy, sugarcoating the ironic gloominess of their lyrics.
A video has now been released for the song, featuring a clown causing mischief at a kid’s party – Get Inuit have also just played their largest London gig to date, at Dingwells.
Words by Georgia Stephenson.