Indie-alt band The Breath Release Stunning New Single

Music Review | 25th July, 2024 Too Many Have Gone

Indie band The Breath are a group built around songwriters Ríoghnach Connolly (voice, shruti and flute) and Stuart McCallum (guitar, effects).

Connolly writes the only way she knows how; a stream of poetic consciousness giving rise to honest, personal, heartfelt songs as likely to touch on childhood summers and first love as cultural dislocation, post-colonial injustices and grief.

The duo released their third album Land Of My Other (2023) to critical acclaim and followed by an Irish tour.

The latest single from the group is Too Many Have Gone, which comes in two differing versions, a live rendition recorded by RTÉ Radio 1 alongside the studio version which featured on the album sessions for Land of My Other.

Speaking about their latest single McCallum says;

It took a while for us to find an interpretation of it live - for it to be expansive and dramatic, but to not lean into the blues canon too much.

The studio version is more introspective, layered, and atmospheric. We wrote the initial idea for the track in the dressing room at a venue in Belfast called The Duncairn and whilst we didn't end up including the track on the studio album, it's always felt like an important song for us to play live, particularly given the current geo-political events creating such tragedy and suffering.- McCallum

Connolly continues;

This song has scared me a little live. It has overwhelmed me how much pure rage and grief I feel that there was almost no authentic way of documenting it in a produced recording at the time. The live versions since then capture the difference and are the closest thing in feel to a keening for Palestine and the continuing barbarism of genocide across the world.

The Breath - Too Many Have Gone (Youtube)

The single Too Many Have Gone is available through all streaming platforms.

Photo Credit: Pete Murphy Publicity

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