Foreignfox - Lights Off, Carry Me Home (Premiere)

Dunfermline rockers Foreignfox have recently teamed up with Edinburgh-based Mt. Doubt to release a double A-side single due out on 31 Mar via Scottish Fiction. We've previously premiered the Mt. Doubt track Tourists and it’s now the turn of Foreignfox.

Lights Off, Carry Me Home is a portrait of a man overwhelmed, lashing out and self-medicating to suppress the belief that he has been abandoned by society. Rage, ego, disillusionment and ill health all gnaw at his exhausted psyche, unable to co-exist, with disastrous consequences. The distant, unassuming introduction to the song soon kicks like a typhoon in the listener's aorta as it drives into a series of soaring, visceral guitar lines and defiant, anthemic choruses.  

Speaking about the track, lead singer Jonny Watt tells us: "When I wrote the lyrics to Lights Off..., I saw it as an objective fictitious story of somebody dealing with problems of addiction and lying to themselves about it in the process. More and more I realise that it is a story much closer to home and is basically myself making excuses as to why I won't stop doing the things I know are harmful to me physically and mentally, and how I don't want to either. 'I would lie to myself, but I've already tried.'

"Maybe it's not so bad to be that way," Watt continues. "Perhaps it helps us to become more well-rounded individuals in the process – who knows. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, everything in moderation including moderation itself – right?"

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Tourists / Lights Off, Carry Me Home is released on 31 Mar via Scottish Fiction.