Tall Ships - Meditations On Loss

After all their months and years in the ether, it was inevitable Tall Ships would come thundering back. Returning single ‘Meditations On Loss’ is a frustrated emotional release; one that’s wrapped up in all those oh-so-common modern anxieties.

Atop their chunkiest, most post-punk indebted bassline to date, frontman Ric Phelan’s in a state of despair. “Why can’t I feel anything at all?” he yelps, while machine-gun drumming pushes him ever-forward. No time for reflection, no space to clear heads, it’s full steam ahead into the great unknown.

“I’m caught up in a race - I don’t know what I’m running from, or to…” Ric laments, but he’s not navel gazing this time around, more trying to scrape together that blown-apart mindset that 2016’s incessant pace too often inflicts. A breathtaking return, Tall Ships have never sounded so present-day.