It should be a banger year for Corella. The Manchester indie band, who we first hyped last year through propulsive belter “Don’t Stop Me”, have been named to the main stage of this summer’s Reading and Leeds Festivals, arriving a few short months after debut album Once Upon A Weekend lands May 3 through Believe. To get us properly worked up, the foursome have unleashed another stratosphere-aimed guitar-pop single in “Drifting,” which hits the streams today (February 7) alongside a fun video directed by Jay Brasier-Creagh.
“‘Drifting’ is all about being younger and completely carefree,” Corella declare. “Exploring the jungle that is your neighborhood, getting up to no good with your friends and making memories that last a lifetime. This transpires through later life as you try and find your path but never seem to find it, you just bounce from day to day doing as you please as you did when you were a kid.”
Corella also weigh in on the visual: “We wanted to capture the stories of our upbringing and childhood, but through an older man’s perspective of reminiscing on his fonder, younger years. Portraying the metaphor of drifting through life, seeing where your path takes you, but then ending up here — a care home. It’s the little things in life that trigger flash backs and all of sudden you’re encapsulated in your 10-year-old self again, roaming care free with zero responsibilities, out with your mates and living for the moment. We wanted the viewer to question: Is it really reliving the past, or is it the reality of an old, tired mind losing sanity and longing for that free spirit it once had?”
That’s up for debate, for sure. Corella’s exciting future, however, is becoming quite clear.
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