Fiddlehead Share New Song ‘Down University’

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Punk powerhouse Fiddlehead have shared the third single from their upcoming full-length, ‘Between The Richness’.

The new song, called ‘Down University’, follows the albums previously released singles ‘Heart To Heart’ and ‘Million Times’ and captures Fiddlehead’s knack for crafting sing-along-ready moments without losing an ounce of intensity.

“This song is about how I got trapped in this Darwinian mentality where everything was approached with extreme doubt and felt like a total failure.” vocalist Patrick Flynn said about the new song. “For some reason, despite growing up in an environment that promoted the Deweyan idea of education as liberation, I came to view it as a pure means to status in some weird grief-stricken attempt to live up to some made up idea of standards I believed would help me ‘prove myself’ to my father in the wake of his passing.”

Flynn goes on to say “Luckily, my good senses came to me and in some way I found a greater sense of connection with him in remembering his true take on human achievement and how it had nothing to do with materialistic status markers. The music spoke this whole lyrical idea for a song to me in a sort of mocking manner. A fairly upbeat, cheer-leading chant for one of the more unnecessarily down and out times in my life.”

Check out ‘Down University’ here:

‘Between The Richness’ follows on from the band’s 2018 album ‘Springtime & Blind’, which was a gut-punch of an album that followed Patrick Flynn coming to grips with the passing of his father. The new album will explore the ever-presence of grief, but with Flynn now writing from a drastically different place.

“These massive things happened in my life between the first record and this record” he said. “It just so happened that I ended up getting married, I had a child, and it was around the 10-year anniversary of my father’s passing.”

On the new album, Flynn brings his experiences, diving into the paradoxes of life, death, joy, and pain – All whilst taking with stunning humanity and honesty. “The name of the record is called Between The Richness because it’s important to me to explore the weird feeling of happiness and sadness, because that’s just where I am right now” Flynn explains.

“My son’s name is Richard and my father’s name is Richard, so it’s literally between the two of them – it’s the richness of life and the richness of death.”

‘Between The Richness’ is set to release on May 21st, via Run For Cover Records, and can be pre-ordered here.

Tracklisting:

1. Grief Motif
2. The Years
3. Million Times
4. Eternal You
5. Loverman
6. Down University
7. Get My Mind Right
8. Life Notice
9. Joyboy
10. Heart To Heart

Check out the previously released single ‘Million Times’ here: