“For Today” By Bedrooms

"For Today" by Bedrooms is Northern Transmissions Song of the Day. The track is off the Dublin, Ireland trio's EP The Afterglow
"For Today" by Bedrooms

Bedrooms new single “For Today”, is the lead-track off their debut EP The Afterglow. The album, comes out this spring, and was produced by Bill Ryder Jones.

Bedrooms sound is inspired by various artists, including Alex G, Codeine, Cocteau Twins, Duster and Galaxie 500. “For Today” lurches at funeral procession pace before easing to its eruptive conclusion, extolling the virtues of pressing pause on life for a moment. The band’s Dane Staunton comments:

“For Today is a song we feel is our most ambitious to date. The song took shape over a period of months of being played live with some subtle changes being made to the arrangement over time. We hadn’t really done any demoing for the recording session so we kept exploring new ideas from the rehearsal room to the studio. Leaning into slowcore and shoegaze, the song is a development of sounds we became interested in while working previously with Daniel Fox from Gi‘The Talkies’ Girl Bandrl Band.”

Staunton continues: “Recording this EP with Bill Ryder Jones was a bit of a dream come true for us. We’re huge admirers of his music and we felt that he could get the most out of these tracks and the sounds we had in our head. We essentially just chanced our arm by emailing his manager and everything kinda moved quickly from there. The few days we spent in West Kirby with Bill were pretty special to us and our favourite time as a band.

Through the ‘Afterglow’ EP we wanted to put together a collection of songs we believed reflected our progression as musicians and songwriters from our earlier releases. We had aimed to release the EP in the late summer of 2020 but given the uncertainty of everything going on this past year, we kept pushing back and were perhaps waiting for some sort of perfect storm where we could gig again and have a launch night to showcase the tracks. It seemed like that was never going to happen, but ultimately, we needed to remind ourselves that we created something that we’re all proud of and didn’t want to sit on the songs for any longer.”

Bedrooms
The Afterglow EP
tracklisting

1. For Today
2. Circle K
3. In Yer Pocket

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