Book of Churches offers up “angry” new track ‘The Quiet Was A Heron’

Felix Mackenzie-Barrow - better known as the co-vocalist and guitarist of Nottingham quartet Divorce - has shared another taste of what to expect from his debut solo album as Book of Churches, the new song ‘The Quiet Was A Heron’.

It follows lead single ‘Song By A Stranger’ to be the second track lifted from Book of Churches’ forthcoming self-titled LP (out on 6th March via Gravity/Capitol Records), and is a tender, acoustic guitar-led cut that has nevertheless been described by Felix as “an angry song”. 

Explaining more about its inception, he has said: “‘The Quiet Was A Heron’ arrived at the end of summer, in 2024. I watched a heron fly at dusk above the noise and chaos of a festival in the Brecon Beacons and wondered how it perceived us from up there. It was a fleeting, almost out-of-body experience.

“It led me back to a memory of the family dog digging up the bones of a heron buried many years before in a black binbag in my parents’ garden. It is an angry song, angry that we as a species render so many gentle, beautiful, irreplaceable lives so unliveable.” 

Listen to ‘The Quiet Was A Heron’ here: