Single of the Week: Arcane Roots – ‘If Nothing Breaks, Nothing Moves’

Is anyone else feeling a little emotional today? No? Just me? Oh, okay then. I guess I just feel a little emotional every day.

Oh, wait, you all do? You were just feeling so emotional you couldn’t speak up right away? Couldn’t quite bring yourself to voice those feelings? Didn’t quite know how to express those emotions? That’s okay, Arcane Roots can do all that for you with their latest track, and our newest Single of the Week, ‘If Nothing Breaks, Nothing Moves’. As guitarist and vocalist Andrew Groves promises from the song’s outset, ‘give me the song and I’ll swear that I’ll sing it’. He’s here to let it all out for you.

And let it out he does, he and the band both; over ‘If Nothing Breaks, Nothing Moves’ five minute runtime some serious venting is done, but also some serious reflection, resulting in a bit of an emotional rollercoaster that rides through tender but impassioned melancholy, bursts of angular, muscular aggression, and soaring choruses that rise above and light the way out of it all. It also really helps that the song boasts some seriously catchy melodies, some introspective downtime, properly heavy riffs, and that that soaring choruses genuinely does soar – anthemic.

Basically, this is how I see this song; it’s a festival, it’s a late night set, it’s pissing down, this song arrives and is if by magic the previously grumpy crowd are completely turned around as they sing in unison – a moment is born. Well, that’s how I picture it anyway.

So, a quick history lesson; Arcane Roots are a south London power trio who have been mashing together a heady mix of alt rock, post-hardcore, math rock, something-somewhere-between-prog-rock-and-progressive-metal, and whatever fancies they feel like sprinkling through their unhinged but driven, heavy but melodic, brand of whatever you feel like calling their music at that particular moment of one of their songs. This monster of a track is their latest single, and it’s the first taste of their October due EP, Heaven & Earth.

Now, let it all out.

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