While She Sleeps Drop New Song Featuring Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil

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While She Sleeps have shared yet another track from their upcoming album ‘Sleeps Society’. The new track ‘Nervous’, sees the band teaming up with Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro, and looks at the struggles that come with mental health, more specifically those of guitarist Sean Long.

“The song ‘Nervous’ is one the band has been talking about ever since its first demo.” Sean explained. “It’s completely infected us since the start and we all knew instantly that something really special had happened. I would go so far as to say it’s the single most important song I’ve ever written in my life. It’s born from experiencing the pain and suffering generated by acute anxiety but also finding a way out from that, which whilst in such a dark and terrifying place felt like the biggest pipe dream imaginable.”

“I felt like if I didn’t write this song then someone else would have. It feels like it needed to be manifested into this world ASAP. I truly believe it’s going to resonate with people on an extremely personal, deep and meaningful level because I feel like it came from a place beyond what we may call ourselves and I feel the song is much bigger than our band.”

“I’d like ‘NERVOUS’ to be viewed as more of a spiritual request rather than just a song to enjoy. I’m talking about a particular emotion in this song but the idea is transferable to any negative or troublesome feeling. It’s about accepting your emotions, fears, pains, anxiety, depression – not only accepting them but owning them and becoming one with them completely. It’s about being proud of all our emotions.”

“The song is literally telling you to BE nervous, be scared and be in pain. By this I mean a lot of our pain comes from the idea that there’s me on the one hand and the pain on the other. So when the pain arrives this “me” is somehow trying to get away from said pain. When we really think this through with clarity we inevitably see its a futile endeavour. The moment we realise this, we can stop fighting and running away and we can begin the healing process by feeling the emotions as if we wanted them to be there in the first place.”

“Once you stop fighting and pushing the feelings away, you realise that most of, if not all of, the pain was caused by this attempt to split ourselves in two. Most of the pain was caused by the fear of the pain itself and the attempt to get away from it. It can actually be a good thing to feel these emotions fully and experience that journey of acceptance.”

“If we just sit a little longer with the pain, fully go into the dark, feeling it with every cell of our being, there is a chance of something miraculous to occur for the individual. What do you have to lose? This is what ‘Nervous’ is about.”

Simon neil added “I’ve been a big fan of what WSS do, and how they do it, for a long time. When Mat and the boys approached me to be a part of their new record it was a no-brainer and Nervous is a towering statement of intent for their new era. The way WSS have chosen to promote and release this album, and the new model they are creating, excites me for the future and I am delighted to be a part of it.”

Check out the new track here:

‘Sleeps Society’ is due out on April 16 and promises to be quite the album featuring not just Simon Neil, but also Deryck Whibley of Sum 41.

Sleeps Society Tracklist

01. Enlightenment (?)
02. You Are All You Need
03. Systematic
04. Nervous (featuring Simon Neil)
05. PYAI
06. Know Your Worth (Somebody)
07. No Defeat For The Brave (featuring Deryck Whibley)
08. Division Street
09. Sleeps Society
10. Call Of The Void (featuring Sleeps Society)
11. DN3 3HT

This is the second track we’ve seen Simon Neil feature on in recent months, with an appearence on Architects chart topping ‘For Those That Wish To Exist’. Check out our review of that here.

And here’s title track ‘Sleeps Society’