Photo credit: Sandra Ebert

Glasgow-based twin-sibling duo Cloth (Rachael and Paul Swinton) returned ahead of the weekend with the announcement of their new album Pink Silence, set for release on April 25th via Rock Action. Coinciding with the news, the pair have shared the record's latest single Golden which sees soft vocals meet its dainty guitar melodies to form a dream-like soundscape. Paul Swinton comments on the new single: "I remember writing the main chorus guitar hook of this song, Rachael adding a chord accompaniment, and me saying to her “this songs needs to sound like Talking Heads!” I think that plan of action maybe got a bit lost along the way, but it’s still one of the album’s most musically upbeat moments, with a great hi-hat-driven beat in the chorus and a bridge which might be my favourite of any Cloth song. The song deals with the tough breakdown of a relationship, and the feeling of that loss being so difficult to reconcile with you’d rather have never fallen in love at all. There’s a line in the song, ‘that scar on my wall, where all of those photographs remembered us falling” which came from me staring at my bedroom wall and seeing the faint outlines - the ‘scars’ - of where photos of really meaningful memories used to be stuck on. That seemed to me to be a really powerful image, even though, in a sense, there’s nothing to look at anymore." Take a listen for yourselves below. 

Cloth - 2025 tour dates

February 20th - O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK **
February 22nd - O2 Academy, Leeds, UK **
February 23rd - Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK **
March 4th - Forum, Tunbridge Wells, UK
March 5th - Boiler Room, Guildford, UK
March 6th - Esquires, Bedford, UK
March 7th - The Gregson Community & Arts Centre, Lancaster, UK
March 8th - Sugarmill, Stoke, UK
March 10th-17th - SXSW, USA
March 22nd - Mac Arts Centre, Galashiels, UK
March 29th - Tunnels, Aberdeen, UK
May 17th - Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK **

** = Supporting Mogwai

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