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"Anxiety" is the first single from 1919's third studio album, Futurecide.
Having exploded back onto the scene with 2016's Death Note EP, Mark Tighe and Mick Reed, the band's original core, had united with bassist Karl Donner and new vocalist Rio Goldhammer, their second album Bloodline was the long awaited follow-up to 1983's Machine LP. However its release in 2017 would come under tragic circumstances, hitting the shelves shortly after losing guitarist Tighe to cancer in January of that year.
The band had started work on Futurecide during Tighe's illness and, though his declining health meant that work was put on hold until after the release of Bloodline, his performance on Stop the World was salvaged from the demo to feature alongside new guitarist Sam Evans. Also featuring on the album is the band's Cry Wolf-era bass player Steve Madden, who comes out of retirement to perform on Isolation.
Futurecide charts the journey of 1919 through this fraught and turbulent period: suffering tragedy, coping with loss, and eventually finding a cautious optimism. The song "Anxiety" and accompanying video, filmed at Leeds' The Wardrobe, places us right at the start of that journey, with the band's personal anguish and insecurity amplified by an increasingly unnerving socio-political landscape. The album is out worldwide on Cleopatra Records in 2019.
lyrics
Anxiety, Anxiety
mourn cells and crave endorphins
this drudgery, this drudgery
5 meals and 40 hours
anxiety, anxiety
dare we do call it suffering?
It’s vanity, it’s vanity
but you’ve heard that one before…
“Settle down” you said, no one likes a pariah
take 48 hours and don’t you be a martyr
don’t you be a martyr
Opportunity, opportunity
digging holes or working lunches
wage slavery, wage slavery
nobody owes you nothing
productivity, productivity
self or state medication
what do you wanna be? What do you wanna be?
They call this life or something
7lbs of flesh and what’s left?
7lbs of flesh and blood
don’t you be a martyr
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