Matthew Bannister releases new single ‘Floating In the River of Time’ ahead of new album ‘The Dark Backward’
On Matthew Bannister’s forthcoming album The Dark Backward, he plays in and out of time, on a musical journey back and forth across decades.
Floating In the River of Time, which is out today, is the first single from The Dark Backward.
Bannister says, “Time is often described as a river. If so, are we swimming against the current or borne along by it?
“If you’ve ever swum across a river, you’ll know the feeling of being carried away. There’s no point fighting it, you have to go with the flow, resign yourself to beaching several hundred metres downstream…”
Matthew Bannister’s musical backstory includes the much-loved Flying Nun 80’s band Sneaky Feelings, through 90’s Flying Nun outfit The Dribbling Darts of Love, two well-received Beatles reinterpretations (Evolver and Rubber Solo), various solo releases under the moniker One Man Bannister, and several albums with his regular band, The Changing Same (most recently, The Changing Same Go To The Movies (Powertool, 2023).
On The Dark Backward he offers up a series of original songs, some new and a few old, woven together with the theme of time.
This isn’t a retrospective, he says. “It’s about time…”
The Dark Backward is due for release on 20 February, via Powertool Records.
