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The Weasel

by Young Jesus

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Young Jesus, the project of the musician John Rossiter, shares a new single entitled "The Weasel." This follows the well-received 2022 LP Shepherd Head, a record Pitchfork described as "Young Jesus at its most personal." The new single feels like an evolution of that record's sound, sharing a stripped down instrumentation and a striking vulnerability in Rossiter's vocal performance, but where Shepherd Head created immersive soundscapes using lo-fi recordings, found sounds and scant electronics, "The Weasel" moves towards delicately arranged organic textures, creating something lush and natural-feeling from unassuming building blocks.

Rossiter says of the track: "This tune is shrouded in mist for me. With Albon’s bass frequencies cloaking the song, it feels a bit like The Beatles playing at a burial. And that is what it is— an examination of what happens when we bury the darkness within ourselves. That darkness becomes the soil through which evil can flower. That being said, I feel this song came from somewhere beyond my understanding and it has a deep and ineffable power when I hear it. Like a dream."

lyrics

You don’t believe the broken heart of the liar
Yet you need the weasel to take the snake into it’s teeth
I buried evil and watched the nightshade flower
I buried evil and fed the darkness just the same

The humans eat up the answers to their problems
As if the demon was just a passing melody
We watch the weasel die as it eats our poison
The snake and nightshade are all that is left for us to blame

You don’t believe the broken heart of the liar
Who’s left to grieve then? when that heart’s broken just the same?

credits

released December 5, 2023
Written and Composed by John Rossiter

Produced and Engineered by Alex Lappin
Mixed by Phil Hartunian
Mastered by Kern Haug

Performed by
John Rossiter: Lead Vocals, Guitar
Alex Lappin: Bass Guitar
Cameron Wisch: Drums

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