The Pale White - 'Lost in the Moment'
The Pale White return with euphoric new single ‘Lost In The Moment’.
Opening with an anthemic guitar loop, The Pale White’s lastest single ‘Lost In The Moment’ captures the chaos of the euphoria you might feel on a night out, with its climactic build up teasingly upping in tempo, and deftly yet devastatingly crashing into a crescendo like a woozy comedown. It’s clear the band really wanted to soundtrack that sense of overwhelming ecstasy as the lead singer wails the main chorus ‘Cos I’m lost in the moment and I can’t control it’ with a raw feeling of a loss of inhibition you can truly feel in his vocals. The honesty of the lyric ‘I tried to get out but I must be lonely’ really speaks to that sense of a loss of control that feels both liberating yet slightly scary and powerless all that once that is highly relatable.
As The Pale White poetically describe themselves speaking on new single ‘Lost in The Moment’, frontman Adam Hope says, “A special song to me. It’s about the feeling, or lack thereof, which suddenly washes over you when you least expect it. A certain type of numbness, not necessarily tied to anything good, or bad. Perhaps it's a captivation of something beautiful, or maybe it could be the type of melancholy in the pit of your stomach when reminiscing and romanticising the past. Whatever it may be, time freezes and you’re neither here nor there… just for a moment.”
Defiantly expressing the sentiment behind their latest album ‘The Big Sad’, set for release on 18th April, the band are clearly on a mission to keep pushing boundaries and continue to take their fans on a journey. As the band put it: “The Big Sad is an album born from the ashes of dark times, but representing a beacon of light for the future. An album of honesty and purity, one that our current fanbase sonically may not be expecting. The sound of a band that got tired of slamming on the fuzz pedal to tick the ‘rock’ box and dares to try something new, dares to shock, dares to be great”.
This emphatic new offering from The Pale White is set to be an explosive live track as the band gear up for their support slot with Frank Black at the magnificent London Palladium next week. Hailing from Newcastle, this show marks how far the humble Geordie boys have come, and is certainly not one to be missed.
Words by Brendan Sharp
