Following the release of his critically acclaimed third studio album 'Ness' last year, singer-songwriter Hayden Thorpe returns with a brand-new track 'Doom Orchid'.
Continuing to delve into the haunting history and enigmatic beauty of Suffolk’s Orford Ness, the song reflects on the site’s role in atomic weapon research and the unsettling dualities of human nature.
Thorpe describes the inspiration behind the track, “Performing the album at Orford Ness beside a nuclear missile had a profound effect on me. I came to see the missile as a strange phallic totem—not a fertility symbol but its inverse, a ridiculous hyper-macho amulet of death. ‘Doom Orchid’ explores our very human dark urges and how our destructive impulses and our libidinous wants must agonisingly co-exist. It’s a love letter to Ness, but perhaps the sort of letter that reveals a little too much.”
Have a listen to 'Doom Orchid' in the player below.
