Nottingham quartet Divorce offer up latest single ‘Antarctica’

Nottingham quartet Divorce have offered up another slice of new music, this time in the form of ‘Antartica’.

The soothing new track gets lifted from their forthcoming debut album ‘Drive to Goldenhammer’ - due to be released early next year, on 7th March 2025 via Gravity / Capitol - that also features their previously-released track ‘All My Freaks’.

“I wrote ‘Antarctica’ at the end of a long and deeply important relationship as a way to self-soothe and make sense of the loss I was feeling whilst touring non-stop,” the band’s Felix Mackenzie-Barrow has said of the profound song. “Thinking of the silent indifference of that vast continent at the bottom of the world was and still is something of a meditation for me. Barry Lopez describes Antarctica as “utterly remote, even as you stand in it. The light itself is aloof.

“The song also recounts an event that Tiger and I experienced, encountering a newborn calf in the middle of the road on a late night drive,” he goes on. “It felt urgent; the calf’s defenceless was impossible to ignore and we carried it back into the farm. There was a choice there. Did we rescue it from the road where it could have been hit by a human in a car or did we just send it back to be killed by a different human further down the line? Neither option feels good or makes any sense to me, but the feeling of its fur covered in afterbirth and the desperate cries of its mother is something I will never forget.”

Along with their new offering, the band have shared an accompanying video which taps into the song’s origin story. Watch the clip for ‘Antartica’ below.