We’re all prone to looking back at the past through a revisionist lens, often latching on to the good times and blissed-out memories and not the struggles and hardships that occupied most of our head space at the time. Parker have tapped into that sentiment today (August 28) with “Eleanor,” a mountainous dose of kaleidoscopic alternative rock that comforts and cascades as it aches along its voluminous four minutes.
The Northern Ireland trio out of Derry skillfully weave an avalanche of sound to echo how our memories don’t always line up with the reality of the time. It makes for one of the more intriguing offerings of the summer, demanding repeated listens to absorb everything dancing from speaker to speaker as it ricochet across our fuzzy domes.
“’Eleanor’, at its core, is a song about nostalgia,” admits Parker singer and guitarist Dylan Bradley. “It’s based on the idea of looking at your past through rose-tinted glasses — not seeing things for what they really are — and how our lives can often take a different direction than we initially planned. Lyrically, it’s informed by the life I lived in my early 20s; spending those years out on the road and coming back home to work my day job in a local bar, often filling the gaps in between tours with partying a little too hard and trying to maintain relationships while living a really transient lifestyle.”
Parker have a string of European shows planned for the fall, and we hope the dudes make it across the Atlantic very soon; tracks like this should sound overwhelming in a live environment. Embrace “Eleanor” below.
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