BROODS Share Origins of New Song “Like a Woman”: Exclusive
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Our new music feature Origins gives artists the opportunity to open up about their latest release. Today, BROODS break down their new single, “Like a Woman.”
BROODS have released “Like a Woman,” the latest single off the sibling duo’s upcoming album, Space Island. The New Zealand indie pop act also shared a gripping music video conveying the deep heartbreak that inspired the song.
While making Space Island, vocalist Georgia Nott was still processing a painful divorce, which has been reflected in the three-part short film leading up to its release. Whereas the “Piece of My Mind” video tackled the difficulties of trying to escape our problems and the “Heartbreak” clip was about accepting loss and rediscovering yourself, the Sam Kristofski-directed “Like a Woman” visual ties things together by moving forward and letting go of the past.
“This song is definitely a result of having a lot of support and encouragement around me through what was a major shift in my life,” Nott tells Consequence. “My mum put quotes in the Christmas advent calendar for me to read every day about keeping your heart open after it breaks and things like that. My dad and I would read the same books and discuss our findings over coffee. We both were trying to become better feminists through it all.”
She continues, “My best friend would rush to hold me when I would burst into a teary panic every time I was triggered. My brother pried open my heart when he could see me shutting down and away, and roll me joints and make me food on my extra sad days.”
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Check out the video for “Like a Woman” below, followed by BROODS’ full Origins of the single.
Space Island is out on February 18th via Island Records Australia/Ingrooves. Preorders are ongoing. In support of the album, BROODS will embark on a North American tour starting in May. Snag your tickets at Ticketmaster.
Solange – “Cranes in the Sky”
I listened to this song over and over when I had just split with my now ex-husband. It gave me so much comfort. Solange has always done that for me with her music. Maybe it’s that we’re both Cancers. Or maybe it’s simply because she has an incredibly beautiful way of telling stories of vulnerability that empowers those sorts of feelings (the way they should be). A Seat at the Table is one of my favourite albums of all time.
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
My friend, Karen, handed me this book when I had just had the extremely difficult conversation that ended my relationship, and said to me with sympathetic eyes, “I don’t know what it feels like to go through this but this helped me through my own depression.” I read it desperately fast on a trip to London in the next few days and finished it on the plane ride home. It left me so at peace my arms were tingling.
The Rhodes Piano
I wrote “Like a Woman” on a Rhodes that lived at our studio for a little bit. I found the tone would resonate gently in the pit of my stomach and brought quite a lot of reflective ballads out of me in that time. It’s beautiful and strange how different instruments provoke different perspectives and stories in songwriting.
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
This album means so much to so many songwriters and I never really got a chance to sit with it until after my marriage broke up. I would cook and clean and potter around the house to it all the time and it really held me. Especially “I Used To Love Him” featuring Mary J. Blige. Every time she sings “some foolish man’s wife” I would get all sassy and let a little bit of resentment go.
My friends and family
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This song is definitely a result of having a lot of support and encouragement around me through what was a major shift in my life. My mum put quotes in the Christmas advent calendar for me to read every day about keeping your heart open after it breaks and things like that. My dad and I would read the same books and discuss our findings over coffee. We both were trying to become better feminists through it all. My best friend would rush to hold me when I would burst into a teary panic every time I was triggered. My brother pried open my heart when he could see me shutting down and away, and [would] roll me joints and make me food on my extra sad days.
BROODS Share Origins of New Song “Like a Woman”: Exclusive
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