Following last year’s acclaimed debut ‘Terror’, produced by Jessica Winter, the rising alternative band return with their second single, ‘There’s A Mouse In My House’, today. This ode to inner solitude was produced and mixed by the insightful Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Sorry, Portishead).

‘There’s a Mouse in my House’ is a haunting song, both in terms of its lyrics and musical composition. Its piercing, cyclical sound patterns recall the lurking, and often environmentally assimilated, existence of a foreign organism (such as a mouse), or perhaps the paranoid thoughts one can experience when feeling trapped within their mind. Vocalist Katie’s emotive and thirsty-for-hope voice, coupled with the penetrating Bauhaus-style synth and drums, creates a persistent tension that slowly builds throughout the song, leaving the listener with an overwhelming sense of catharsis by the end.

Healy had the following to say about the themes behind the single: “‘There’s A Mouse In My House’ is about a period in my life fueled by intense paranoia due to my quick, often not thought-out, decision-making and the unknown of whether it will help or hinder my future.”

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The single intertwines darkness and light – from the gothic intonations of Katie’s vocals, through to the looping, cyclical warmth of the guitar lines and creeping synths. Frantic, melodic, ever-engaging, ‘Terror’ was one of the first songs written by the band, and was recorded pre-pandemic – they’ve had to wait, an embryonic band suspended in stasis like so many others, safe in the knowledge they had something special on their hands.

Vocalist Katie Healy had the following to say about the themes behind the single: “‘Terror’ was written during a time of DPDR and anxiety episodes where I would frequently wake up screaming in the night due to night terrors. I tried to encapsulate something that spoke of a period of turmoil but important growth in my early 20’s, an experimental experience where I thought if I’d embrace these night terrors instead of hiding from them in the hope I could put them to rest completely.”

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