the ninth wave

The Ninth Wave have shared new single ‘I’m Only Going to Hurt You’, the second track to be taken from upcoming EP ‘Happy Days!’, out July 31st via Distiller Records.

The new cut is a tantalising electro-pop track, with the band’s own darker, gothic take on the genre, leaning into the realm of post-punk.

The new cut is a tantalising blend of electro-pop meets post-punk, with the Scottish quartet drawing influence from ‘My Severed Heart’, a poem written by band member Haydn Park-Patterson

The band explained ‘i’m Only Going to Hurt You’ is “a song that has existed in so many forms that it is hard to recognise the original demo and the final recording as the same song. It started out life in the form of one of Haydn’s poems, My Severed Heart, from which the pre-chorus and chorus lyrics were taken

“Since then it’s been dragged through different arrangements, keys and styles until we almost decided to scrap it. It wasn’t until Calum, Kyalo and Millie reimagined the backbone of the song that things fell into place. The main rhythmic elements of this song were made on Millie’s Elektron Digitakt, using field recordings of scrap bits of metal that surrounded the studio.”

The Ninth Wave added: “The song itself is centred around an internal conflict faced after realising the difficulties of a relationship that seemed to be damaged even before it was allowed to flourish.” Pre-order the EP via their website theninthwave.online