Backwaters

Album: Drenge (2013)
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  • The second single from Drenge's self-titled debut album, this song is about the area that the Loveless brothers grew up in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England. Vocalist Eoin Loveless explained to AllMusic: "It's absolutely stunning from the hills to the valley to the field. It's amazingly beautiful if you go there once a week you can still appreciate the beauty."

    "When you're living in it and you're looking for things to do as an adolescent, it becomes a complete hellhole," he continued. "At that point, everything that's beautiful about it is everything that's terrible about it. There's a rocky bus service we have to use to get to Sheffield where our gigs were and where we practice."

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