Sometimes the final song on a record could begin to tell a new story. That’s at play on “Monument Road,” the solemn and reflective new guitar-pop single from Quitter, the lo-fi indie project of Scottish singer-songwriter Kenny Bates. Monument Road, the album, dropped last month via Heavenly Creature and Gold Mold Records, and its closing track is a warm invitation into Bates’ more personal moments and spaces.
“The track leafs through many of the album’s key themes — reflection on changing relationships, key moments that altered the path you took in life,” he says. “I travelled down to Ayr to record at my parents’ house one summer when lockdown lifted and they’d left for the week. I took a break one night to find an old camera of my grandpa’s I thought was in the attic, and came back with the basis for this song instead. The lyrics put you there with me in the attic, looking at old letters and keepsakes over the years, with that bittersweet feeling of time changing everything.”
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