For Those I Love, the brainchild of Dublin producer, visual artist and songwriter David Balfe, last month announced his second album, Carving The Stone, set for release on 8 August via September Recordings. Balfe now shares a third track from the new record, ‘Mirror’.
Premiered by Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, who will interview David on his show on Friday, and paired to a striking video directed by Niall Trask (Jamie T, Alabaster DePlume, Fat White Family) the latest single sees his voice sounding clearer – and angrier – than ever; the distinct voice of a street philosopher, a radical polemicist, and a confessional poet rolled into one hyperliterate ex-raver. Dublin, is ‘in bed with techno-feudalism,’ a theory which argues that we have undergone a transition to a post-capitalist world in which we are all digital serfs, enslaved by our new feudal overlords in Silicon Valley.
His most propulsive song to date, driven ever-forward by thumping drums, he describes almost being stabbed as a crime of lesser proportions than everyday class war:
“See I’ve been knifed alive by mine, but wined and dined by those on high became the bigger crime to me, if I’m going to bleed then make me bleed with a blade I can see.”
Following a visceral first performance at Glastonbury, as both solo artist and as a special guest with Overmono, Balfe heads out on a UK and Ireland tour in September and October.
For Those I Love Live Dates
September
23 – The Fleece, Bristol
25 – Islington Assembly Hall, London
28 – Gorilla, Manchester
29 – Room 2, Glasgow
October
1 – Limelight 2, Belfast
2 – Cyprus Ave, Cork
3 – Mike The Pies, Listowel
5 – Black Box, Galway
6 – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin
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