SLOWLY SLOWLY

It’s the dichotomy between Daisy Chain’s content and delivery that made Slowly Slowly’s fourth album even possible to release. In it, the band’s grimmest and most sorrowful lyrics to date arrive neatly wrapped in some of the most  adventurous, unhinged and unabashed tunes of their career. It’s a new sound singer-songwriter Ben Stewart says was a complete necessity for lifting the project off the ground – he simply couldn’t have handled the heaviness of these  songs otherwise. 

The resulting record is one that’s equally as profound as it can be a party starter. It melds the raw with the boisterous expertly and offers its listener moments of deep reflection and healing among other anthemic, no-holds-barred sing alongs.

Standout lyrics speak to Ben’s confrontations with himself in the mirror. “I’m stubborn at the best of times, am I gonna end up alone?” he cries during ‘Hold My Breath’ in the midst of a relationship break down, meanwhile he concedes “I’m a thousand weak layers of crazy insane” on the record’s closer ‘Papier-Mache’; a comparison he makes of himself as thin layers of paper, seemingly strong from the naked eye, but weakly holding it together to save face.  

Much like the full album, its title track carries the overarching theme of living in total acceptance of our broken and  multi-faceted selves. It encapsulates an ethos shared by the majority of Daisy Chain’s songs – that life and our growth as humans are not linear. 

Self-produced by Stewart alongside mixing duties by UK heavyweight Jonathan Gilmore (Wolf Alice, The 1975, Nothing  But Thieves, Beabadoobee), Daisy Chain carries Chamomile-days sensitive sadness and wordplay lathered in refreshing  pop sensibilities. Undoubtedly their most complex yet well-rounded piece of work to date, Slowly Slowly release Daisy Chain on November 4, 2022. 

Record Label: Nettwerk

Booking Agent: AU/NZ - Lonely Lands Agency | ROW - CAA

Publishing: Concord Music Publishing