London-based art/folk rock outfit Drive Your Plow returns with a new single, their first release in over a year since February 2024’s two-track live session from Surrey Studios that featured “Away From It All” and “Mr. Zeit.” The band, consisting of members Daniel Ndaty (electric guitar), Takuma Ejima-Dalley (piano), Paddy Davies (drums), Starr Evans (violin), Luca Gierlinger (bass guitar), Louis Macmillan (acoustic guitar & vocals), deliver a striking, all-encompassing display of swelling soundscapes, intricate instrumentation, and emotional storytelling.
The new song, titled “Hand Me Downs” is a momentously soaring track that opens with gently soothing finger picking and distantly ominous vocals, while subtly introducing quivering violin lines, and underlying cinematic group vocal harmonies. Spacious drums and Latin-infused jazzy keys file in as Drive Your Plow finds a second gear with an almost danceable energy imposing itself in the instrumentation, intensely contrasted by anguished storytelling from Macmillan, who is mulling over an unresolved connection. The surge eventually tapers off before finding one last push, this of which breaks free into a sprawling, vastly majestic final leg. Rambling atmospheric guitars and crashing drums lead the way in this grand outbreak, bringing the song to it’s cathartic conclusion.
“All across the line
Hand-me-downs
I caught your eye
I didn’t know why you frowned
I believe in you
The man I knew wasn’t true
To what you once brought
To my mum, your daughter”
Listen to Hand Me Downs (Live in Studio):
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