Clara Bullock
Freelance journalist based in Bristol. Loves hardcore, her heated blanket, and pasta.
Bristol outfit Oslo Twins’ new single and EP title track ‘Back To Nothing‘ is a hopeful breakup song
‘Back To Nothing‘ is a song about heartbreak, but not one that will make you cry. Instead, it is hopeful and upbeat, somewhere on the other side of resignation.
“I wouldn’t say it was about longing, but the stage after,” says co-writer Eric. “I wrote the lyrics by the River Avon in Bristol on a warm evening. It’s a melancholic, reflective song.”
The track is based on a calm, steady rhythm and features violin, courtesy of Tom Connolly. It is the kind of song that you would listen to a few months after the breakup, when things have settled and you have accepted your loss, but some melancholy remains.
“Your feet are off the ground / without a care” they sing, and that is exactly what the track sounds like: light and carefree. Whether this is just wishful thinking or they are already fully healed from the loss remains unclear – and do we really need to know? Let’s fake it till we make it and dance along to this tune until we’re over it.
Watch/Listen to ‘Back To Nothing’ here:
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