TWIST MURPHY’S LAW WITH NEW SINGLE:
“PROBABLY WILL”
FEAT. MIKE SIDDELL (HOPE OF THE STATES / THE LEISURE SOCIETY) + KELLY BARNES
Outstanding in their field
So, I know what it is to be miserable but I don’t know what it is to be rich. If I ever become rich I will let you all know how miserable I am sitting on my yacht in the Med surrounded by the beautiful people. Anyway we bring you The Miserable Rich and their latest offering.
There is an album on the way, it’s title is Overcome, out on the 2nd of Feb. The single is here now. It’s called Probably Will.
Warning: The video contains sad bits with cuddly toys. Once you start you have to watch it all. Will it have a happy ending? Find out for yourself!
AHH, cute
“We’re gonna get through this and much more, Yeah you know – we probably will” The Miserable Rich tentatively reassure us here. An unlikely song that took its initial inspiration from Murphy’s Law, it revolves around the repeated vocal refrain of “we probably will” in each verse. Featuring sweeping guest violins courtesy of Mike Siddell (The Leisure Society / Hope of The States) and breathtakingly operatic backing vocals from Kelly Barnes, it sees the band deliver a rousing anthem about finding hope in the face of our daily adversities.
Emerging from a series of chance encounters, from words inspired by a misheard Japanese Breakfast lyric to twisting the band’s arms to give it a shot at the very end of their album recording session, vocalist James de Malplaquet explains how this exquisite single almost never came to be:
“This was the last song written for the main album and nearly didn’t make it… the band agreed to ‘squeeze it in’ at the end of the day’s studio recording if we had time. I’ll admit that making a song about Murphy’s Law and giving it this title was a bit playful and I did quite like taking it to the band for that reason. Will has had quite a few accidents in his time, including losing his passport at the airport bar on the first day of a you. That sense of fun led me to putting the joke in the middle section, something I first thought about while listening to a Japanese Breakfast song. I realised on second listen, she hadn’t said what I thought she had – so I did. Sort of…. Overall – though it was almost an afterthought – I think the song fits very closely to the paradoxical and contranymic essence of the album.”
DeClunk 