Vistas have unveiled their rapturous new single ‘Nowadays’ – listen here.
Musically the single references Radiohead, with the production on ‘Creep’ acting as a catalyst for where the band wanted to take things with ‘Nowadays’. A soft and quiet introduction builds up into an epic crescendo, whilst still retaining the effervescent energy that’s now quintessential with the band throughout the song.
Speaking about the track in more detail the band say, “‘Nowadays’ was written about those people that change their personality, views and how they act towards you when they’re around different people. It’s a strange feeling to feel like you know someone one minute and then the next it’s like they’re a stranger. At the time of writing this song I had been having a few conversations with friends about this situation happening to them so it felt prevalent to put the subject into a track.”
The Scottish trio’s third full length studio album ‘Is This All We Are?’ will be released on 15th September 2023 and follows swiftly on from the acclaimed ‘The Beautiful Nothing’ EP (Is Right Records) released at the start of the year. Kickstarting a new era for Vistas, bringing heavier elements into play that gloriously played off the breezy, euphoric staples of their two critically lauded albums, ‘Is This All We Are?’ as a body of work picks up the baton from where the most recent EP left off as the band hurtle towards esteemed festival slots at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals.
Recorded at Kempston Street Studios in Liverpool in December of 2022 and produced by Rich Turvey, the environment of a brand new studio gave the band a fresh burst of energy when it came to laying down the tracks as they also made a conscious effort with this album to strip away any unnecessary details that didn’t serve the music. What happened as a result is the band’s most confident body of work to date as the trio navigate their way through love, loss and life’s big questions.
Explaining ‘Is This All We Are?’ In more depth, frontman Prentice Robertson says: “During the writing of both the EP and album, one of my family members became very ill and this became all encompassing in mine and my families’ lives. This led to many conversations about the fragility and meaning of someone’s life and where they go and what they leave behind after they are gone. As these subjects were so dominating in my thoughts, they became the central theme of the album. I think the title sums up these themes as a whole by asking ‘is this all we are?’.”
“In our previous records I feel like the subjects of the songs were a bit more broad and with this record I tried to make things more specific. There are tracks about why people can be cruel, tracks about losing someone, tracks about how unfair life can be and tracks that question what the meaning of our time on earth is,” he continues.
‘Is This All We Are?’ Tracklist
1. ‘Cruel Hearts’ 2. ‘Bad Idea’ 3. ‘Dopamine’ 4. ‘Nowadays’ 5. ‘Last Together’ 6. ‘Is This All We Are?’ 7. ‘I Know I Know’ 8. ‘Sleeping With The Light On’ 9. ‘The Garden’ 10. ‘A Hit Of Heaven’
‘Nowadays’ is available to stream now. ‘Is This All We Are?’ Is released on 15th September 2023.
Live Dates
24th August – The Parish, Huddersfield 25th August – Leeds Festival 27th August – Reading Festival 3rd November – O2 Academy, Glasgow 4th November – O2 Academy, Birmingham 5th November – O2 Academy, Oxford 7th November – Trinity Centre, Bristol 8th November – Chalk, Brighton 9th November – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth 10th November – Old Fire Station, Bournemouth 11th November – Electric Ballroom, London 12th November – The Waterfront, Norwich 14th November – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham 15th November – The Leadmill, Sheffield 16th November – O2 Ritz, Manchester 17th November – Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne 21st November – Supersonic, Paris 22nd November – Kavka, Antwerp 23rd November – Paradiso, Amsterdam 24th November – Nochtwache, Hamburg 25th November – Marie Antoinette, Berlin
