From their forthcoming album The Ultraviolet Age, LYR look at human separation during, before, and after Covid through the hauntingly poetic song, “The Song Thrush and the Mountain Ash”.
Simon Armitage of the band says this of the song,
‘The Song Thrush and The Mountain Ash’ is also a metaphor for any relationship which suffers because of a lack of communication. The Song Thrush is famous for its tuneful call, while the Mountain Ash or Rowan is one of our most common trees, almost shouting with bright red berries in winter. But bird and tree, no matter how melodious and colourful, have no common language, just as the characters in the song are failing to speak to each other through a closed window and the dense fog of memory loss.
Listen to “The Song Thrush and The Mountain Ash” below
