Placement Reveal Brooding New Single ‘More A Curse’

Following the success of recent release Inertia / Heavy Lids Kaurna/Adelaide experimental-punk outfit Placement offer another brooding taste of their upcoming debut album with new single, More a Curse – a track born out of isolation, existential crisis and the need to create art amidst chaos.

Shrouded in shadows and wright, More a Curse questions one’s understanding of mortality – forcing the listener to confront the reality of death and sorrow. With gothic undertones, the song ventures into dark territories both sonically and thematically, creating a sound that is as unsettling, yet utterly captivating.

“This is the second single off of our album and it feels to me like taking the next step into the slightly dystopian world the album inhabits,” explains vocalist Malia. “Really just the reality the album was born in – historic events colliding and altering the forces of our existences. Post sickness and staggering on, plaintively human, beset and besieged on all sides by politics, policies, wars, dissidence, disaster, scorched earth, pestilence, whatever is left of the plagues and the many curses of our current existence.”

More a Curse is a song that feels like wading through a sea of mud – heavy, sludgy and constantly pulling you down, yet filled with an unrelenting push to persevere. The track’s dark, murky rhythms create an inescapable weight, while Malia’s hypnotic vocal delivery adds to the eerie unease that echoes from the very first guitar wail.

“For me it is something pulling me away from being able to create that is the looming evil,” continues Malia. “To create and consume art is the most meaningful higher power I have ever connected to. I am like a fanatic who cannot stop gushing about my love. And so it is as a curse to be parted from that.