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Making their very welcomed return following their 2023 debut album Morning Ritual, Chartreuse have today shared their brilliant new single, Sequence of Voices. Exploring themes of Grief, anxieties and fears, their latest track recorded in Iceland with producer Sam Petts-Davies (The Smile) gives us the first taster of what's to come as its impending sense of urgency grips from within. Speaking about ‘Sequence of Voices’, guitarist and vocalist Mike Wagstaff says: “Early last year my mom had a fall and hit her head whilst walking the dog. She was concussed for awhile afterward which resulted in her heading to the hospital, just to check she hadn't done any real damage.After having some scans done the doctors ended up finding tumours on her brain. These,thankfully, turned out to be benign. This also happened during a time when a few of my close friends had family battling cancer, so I think the whole tone of this period in my life had soaked deeply into my songwriting.I have a habit of holding in pressure and anxieties, like they are somehow precious to me.But when something happens that is so big as to not be ignored, it ends in almost like an explosion of outward feeling. That might give a little more insight behind the intended irony of the lines ‘there's that feeling, glorious feeling.’” Take a listen for yourselves below. 

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