“The Mud Never Dries” by TV Priest

TV Priest are back with New single “The Mud Never Dries.” Talking about the new song, vocalist Charlie Drinkwater says: “‘The Mud Never Dries’ is the most abrasive thing we’ve made, a collision of drum and bass, post-punk, electronic data samples and spoken word that doesn’t settle into any one shape. We wrote it thinking about history as sediment. The way the past doesn’t really leave us. It settles, layer on layer, until we’re walking on ground we don’t recognise but somehow keep retracing. My own history, our shared political one, the same loop, the same refusal to look down or look back. The title felt honest in that way. Nothing dries. Nothing finishes. We keep stepping in it.”

Continuing about the video, he says: “”The Mud Never Dries” is about the moment the mask of history slips and we ask ourselves if we’re just doomed to repeat it. We wanted the video to reflect that; it needed to feel free but watched, paranoid, intense, and most importantly unashamed. Shot over an afternoon with my close collaborator Charles Gall it shows me left alone in a dead office space, suit on and shoes off, finally giving in to something animal and letting a performance pour out of me. A body remembering it was never really tame.”

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