‘Your Head’s in the Sand’ (out now) is the second single from the upcoming album, The Third Side of the Coin, a stupendous album from start to finish, which is due to be out April 27, from Edinburgh based artist Inkfields. Today’s track sees the songwriter inspired by the fluidity and calming effects of the ocean as he conjures up a mesmerising back drop while encouraging the subject to “give up your pride”.
Following from the album’s title track, ‘Your Head’s in the Sand’ comes out of a moment of frustration, and you can hear it in the flicker in Inkfields’ voice and the hammering tones that keep you on edge while somehow maintaining that soothing atmosphere.
Heralding a progression in the Inkfields sound these single’s bring about an artist that understands where he is at, it’s a less complicated, more mature, more settled sound that feels like Inkfields hitting his a-game, an artist able to allow his tracks to breathe and engulf the listener.
Inkfields, the guise of Samuel James-Griffiths, began in Dresden, Germany as a spontaneous after work street music experiment, moving through Sweden, Southern Germany and finally to Edinburgh. The music has been forged through thousands of hours of street music across dozens of cities in Europe, from -12 to +40 degrees, through rain, snow, wind and sun.
Over the years the music has journeyed through genres and matured with time, releasing debut album Beneath the Waves in 2018, followed by a single a month experiment through a lot of lockdown, and has found his true sound on the upcoming album The Third Side of the Coin.
The release comes with a home filmed, one shot video, that was improvised with the use of a large glass jar and some paint, the original video was filmed in Cairngorm National Park at -8 degrees temperatures, but unfortunately did not work out.
“Beneath The Waves was an attempt to create something that was a bit more unique, a bit of a hipster desire to come up with something different. Now I’m just composing from my heart, rather than trying to make something that will grab people’s attention, I’m writing what I’d like to write.
‘Your Head’s in the Sand’ was mixed in Abbey Roads Studio by John Barrett (Arcade Fire, George Ezra, The Rolling Stones, Frank Ocean etc) and mastered in Castle Sounds Studio by Stuart Hamilton.
