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By The Water

from Belly / By The Water by Fräulein

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London based new grungers Fräulein are back with their new single ‘By The Water’, joining previous single ‘Belly’ to complete their first double a-side offering. Built around a raw-yet-pensive guitar riff and a driving drum beat, singer Joni Samuels delivers a powerful vocal performance that shows why Fräulein are building a genuine buzz around their early music and are at the forefront of the next wave of guitar bands to break through.

Singles ‘Belly’ and ‘By The Water’ may be released as a double a-side record, but that’s where the similarity ends. ‘Belly’ teems with a brooding sense of frustration, according to Samuels “Belly is a song that is written around its lyrics. I’m talking about how creativity can be bloody and exhausting for some people but really organic and energising for some others”.

Conversely, ‘By The Water’ has a more yearning feeling running through it as Samuels explains that it “submerges the listener into a vision of melancholic wistfulness. It touches on the contrasting emotions often invoked by looking back at events from your past. The track is about beauty & nighttime & romanticising times & living in the past, even though you know it’s shit and that it can keep you stagnant.”

lyrics

Start to believe your own hype
By the water
Not your future anymore
Bright by the water
Now the sun is gone,
Record our night by the water
Maybe just one day or night
By the water

Ha, by the water

You say “we are the same”
That one night by the water
Well, isn’t this such a shame
Right by the water
I should be in the sky,
Flew too close to the water
Run down on the ground,
Gonna drown in the water

Ha, by the water

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from Belly / By The Water, track released October 20, 2021

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Signature Brew - Haggerston

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May 11

Are You Listening Festival

Reading, UK
Jun 19

Third Man Records London

London, UK
Jul 6

The Green Door Store

Brighton, UK
Jul 6

The Green Door Store

Brighton, UK

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