Blue Bendy release new single ‘Come On Baby, Dig!’
London six-piece Blue Bendy unveiled their new single ‘Come On Baby, Dig!’ last Thursday that will appear on their confirmed debut album So Medieval.
Photo by Michael Julings
Offering a glimpse of the group’s upcoming album, which is set to be released on 12th April, Come On Baby, Dig! embraces a darker and grittier sound that stands slightly incongruous to their previous works.
The song’s lyricism imbues an ode-like quality reflective of the self and how the notion of the self is not fixed and is, in reality, mutable. There is an air of desperation to reclaim a life once lived by the persona:
Listen up, call it love it’s a crime
Dying at twenty five
It’s just a room that it was at the start
The last lived elastic parts
Evocative and high-spirited, this track channels the post-punk and art-rock persuasions that characterise their sound: Come On Baby, Dig! reminds us of Man/Woman/Chainsaw’s What Lucy Found There, matching their unfaltering level of energy and cleverly crafted intertwining of moody lyricism and experimentation, with an accumulation of tones and textures to maintain a vignette of the persona’s dark understanding of the changing and evolving self.
Accompanying the single was a music video starring Laura Schuller, a performance artist who has collaborated with the world famous Marina Abramovic: Schuller moves in an angular and oblique way that defines the lyrics and is truly uncanny and unconventional. The perpetuation of unconventionality in their sound and forlorn lyricism resonates with Schuller’s movements, as she successfully embodies the song’s crux.
Having shared the stage with krautrock legends Squid in November 2023 supporting their UK tour, I am looking forward to what Blue Bendy has to offer on their highly anticipated album and their sonic journey that awaits.