Fiddlehead Share New Single & Video “Sleepyhead”

Fiddlehead recently returned with the announcement of their third full-length, Death Is Nothing To Us, that is due out on August 18th via Run For Cover Records, and today the post-hardcore outfit are sharing the latest single from the album, Sleepyhead. Death Is Nothing To Us finds Fiddlehead completing the thematic trilogy that began with their previous two releases, resulting in an album that feels like both the culmination of the band’s work as well as a powerful and life affirming record. 

Sleepyhead follows lead single, Sullenboy, and offers another exciting taste of the new album. The track is packed to the brim with the kind of combustible hardcore energy and ’90s alternative-influenced hooks that Fiddlehead excel at, highlighting vocalist Pat Flynn as he throws his voice from plaintive and melodic to the full-throated roar he’s known for.

“There’s no real great lyrical upside to this song. I wanted to write a song that could capture the stuck-ness that comes with deep depression. Ultimately, this is a song about tuning out and looking away from the brokenness in one’s life on earth in favor of quick comfort. It is kind of a conversation between two people or two minds. The so-called ‘Sleepyhead’ is a woeful person depressed by the way of the world who chooses to deal with the sadness of it all with excessive sleep. Somewhere in there, however, is a voice of reason that offers perspective – but, to no avail, as the two voices come together in resignation to the weight of the hold that a thick ’bout of deep depression’ can lay on someone. I see the song as essential to the arc of the record, which ultimately turned out to be a climb out of such a sad state. So, perhaps that’s the upside?” (Pat Flynn)