Fragile Creatures latest single, Big Red Button, available digitally from January 17th 2020. The third teaser single from their forthcoming second album, PUNK YACHT.
Combining rock, grunge, pop and catchy melodies, Fragile Creatures evoke the spirit of great musical innovators of the past, from Bowie to Blur and beyond. Resistant to the formulaic, going wherever their musical muse takes them. Hot on the heels of this Spring's Heart Beat EP, the band are gearing up to release their second album PUNK YACHT, with a series of DIY-recorded psych-pop singles. Big Red Button is the third release from the album, of which Kidd states;
"Big Red Button was written about the kind of person who kicks their toys out of the pram when things don't go the way they want - they cut their nose off to spite their face. Destroying things they love in knee jerk reactions. Telling themselves their lies are to protect others when they are in fact self-serving. The timing of the release is deliberate, as from the offset 2020 feels like its on a knife edge and someone is about to press that big red button. You can see these traits in a US president who orders an assassination in the midst of impeachment, or an Australian government who all but outlaw climate protest as their country burns. Britain is also labelling climate change campaigners as extremists lately, whilst spouting endless lies to prop up the expensive self-immolation that is Brexit. It is a personal song that feels deeply political in the context of current affairs.
This song was written to be cathartic in a dark time for me, it's a song the band love playing and has been a live favourite at shows for a while - I hope people have fun with it and don't focus too much on the doom and gloom, it is meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek!."
Here on Bandcamp fans can download not just the Big Red Button single, but also the original bedroom demo and a live version of the song, performed at Brighton's Concorde 2 in November 2019.
lyrics
Put your finger down on the big red button
All your stars have inhibitions
Held in check by their big ambitions
Self-destructive demolition
You live a little lie, live a little lie all the time
(Life's too short to waste my time)
You live a little lie, live a little lie and then you die
(It's not what you say it's what you hide)
The big red button
The big red button
Ooh, you're gonna lose
You got every little thing confused
Why'd you even try today
Whispered doubts unfaced
My future's been erased
Why'd you even get out of bed today?
Gathered up fragments of the life you shook
You'd do anything to turn back the clock
Pressed dried flower in the pages of a book
The scent's still pure if you'd open up
You live a little lie, live a little lie all the time
(Life's too short to waste my time)
You live a little lie, live a little lie and then you die
(It's not what you say it's what you hide)
The big red button
The big red button
Ooh, you're gonna lose
You got every little thing confused
Why'd you even try today?
Every little thing you say
Gets taken the wrong way
I only ran a mile
Instead of coming to your aid
Why'd you have to run away?
Why'd you tell me half the tale?
In time things will be okay once again
The big red button
credits
from Big Red Button,
released January 17, 2020
Adam Kidd – composer, vocals, guitar, producer
Aaron Neville - keyboards, vocals
Tom Alty - lead guitar, vocals
James Crump - drums
Adam Whittles - bass guitar
Aaron McClenahan - percussion
Recorded by Fragile Creatures, Portslade, UK
Mixed by Aaron and Tristan McClenahan in Limoges, France
Mastered by Alex Pettman, Debut Mastering, Bristol, UK
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