Sleep Token are only a couple of weeks away from their highly anticipated new album, Even in Arcadia, so they’ve offered up the piano-pop single “Damocles.”
The third and final preview takes on a lighter, less electronics-processed and more ivory-twinkling nature than preceding Even in Arcadia singles “Emergence” and “Caramel.”
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As for the song, “Damocles” initially leans into an airy, extended piano motif upon which Vessel delivers lines of biting self-introspection amid various end-of-days allusions (“What if the diamond days are all gone?”). Perhaps like the fame-weary “Caramel” before it, “Damocles” appears to take on a meta bent, too, with Vessel seemingly addressing various criticisms Sleep Token have faced over the years (“I know I should be touring/I know these chords are boring/But I can’t always be killing the game”).
Even in Arcadia arrives May 9 via RCA Records. Preorder your copy over at the AP Shop, available on CD and standard black wax.
This article was originally published on RevolverMag.com and has been edited by Alternative Press.