Punk Outfit Fiddlehead Share Latest Single “Heart To Heart” From Upcoming LP
Punk powerhouse Fiddlehead have released a second single from their upcoming album, Between The Richness. “Heart to Heart” follows the band’s lead single, “Million Times,” and carries many of the same themes and musicality from that first glimpse into the new release.
“Heart to Heart” is an emotionally wrenching track that closes the new album. Having recently become a father, the track is a letter to lead singer Pat Flynn’s son, as he explains what it means to experience joy and loss to their greatest degrees all at once. Flynn shares that “it’s a song about finding ways to reconnect with those we love, despite the hard barriers between life and death.”
Musically, “Heart to Heart” is what you’d expect from a collection of punk musicians banding together. Electric guitar introduces the song, with a catchy guitar riff playing throughout, and hard percussion from beginning to end. It matches the emotionally charged lyrics, adding an immediacy to the message, as Flynn reminds his children “When daylight is too dark and nights last way too long, look into your heart and find me.”
Coming to a close, the track also hones in on the message of being close even in death through a quote borrowed from American poet and painter, E. E. Cummings. “I remember heading the ending for the first time and haign the emotional impulse…to speak with the people who have gone into the unknown,” shares Flynn. “That felt appropriate for the type of message I was trying to write.” The way the track comes together hits home in all the right ways, and continues to explore the paradoxes of life, death, joy and pain that Fiddlehead have focused on through “Between The Richness.”
Fiddlehead was formed in what Flynn describes as a “deeply, deeply, laughably depressing part of my life,” and was never meant to release an album – let alone a second. Even with their modest beginnings and lack of expectations, the power group (featuring members of Have Heart and Basement) are set to release their second album, Between The Riches, on May 21st.
