Sydney rockers Marvell have released their most powerful single to date, ‘Needle’, a true journey of a song that describes the hardships, trauma and impossible hope that accompanies a cancer battle. Accompanying the track is an equally affecting video, made in collaboration with Brae Fisher (Dear Seattle).
‘Needle’ is lifted off Marvell’s new EP, Comfort Is King which is out now.
For Marvell, the song is deeply personal, as vocalist Max Marvell explains, “We wrote ‘Needle’ when our then-drummer BJ was battling testicular cancer. We wanted to write about how we felt, imagining ourselves in his shoes and really trying to understand what he was going through, rather than just telling his story. The track starts as something contemplative, going through the fear and the uncertainty then quickly evolving into a more powerful song, daring at the possibility of hope. We wanted to blend the visceral, contradictory feelings of such a devastating situation with the sterile, procedural reality that we saw BJ going through. All in all, this track aims to capture that feeling of staring down the barrel of something terrible, when all the odds are against you, and saying fuck it – I’m going to give all I’ve got to make it through.”
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