James & The Cold Gun Drop New Single ‘Long Way Home’

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James & The Cold Gun have signed to Gallows‘ label Venn Records, the duo have now released their brand new single ‘Long Way Home‘ that is accompanied by an official video shot at The Giraffe Shed in Tregynon, Central Wales and directed by The Costa Sisters.  James & The Cold Gun is comprised of flatmates and friends James Joseph and James Biss (ex-Frown Upon), the pair specialise in delivering a hard-hitting sound that name checks the likes of Refused, Queens of The Stone Age, Manic Street Preachers and Death From Above 1979 as influences.

Long Way Home‘ can be streamed and purchased here and the video can be viewed below

The song can be viewed in two parts, the first half being about being stuck in a toxic relationship and it slowly eating away at you—’taking the long way’ where you’d choose to travel a longer way to work or home to avoid a person that you might not want to be around for as long, but people could interpret it as taking a hard route in their lives to better themselves rather than looking for shortcuts. The second half of the song, the mid-section onwards, is so cathartic, it’s essentially me trying to wrestle with my own self doubt and the prying eyes of the doubters around me, ‘you won’t catch me at the crossroads kneeling’—I feel like right now would be the easiest time for me to give up on music and settle for something more safe or sensible, but that’s not going to fucking happen.