Brighton's Fierce Friend ventures into wonderfully strange territory on ‘Tokyo Rose’, the third single from forthcoming album 'Blood Red Hills & The Uncanny Valley'.
Leaving behind the alternative-rock drive of the album's previous singles, ‘Tokyo Rose’ begins as an experimental piano ballad before steadily transforming into something far more disorientating. Repeating piano tones collide and overlap, gradually joined by drums, guitar, cello and harp as the arrangement builds towards a hypnotic electronic climax.
Taking inspiration from the 1937 disappearance of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, the song dives into the mythology that has surrounded her final flight. Radio static, phantom transmissions, searchlights and increasingly surreal theories blur history with imagination, while the music itself begins to resemble competing signals disappearing across an endless ocean.
Have a listen to 'Tokyo Rose' in the player below.