Selfish Things have shared their first new music in four years, and it serves as a stark look at the first hurdles of recovery.

The song is titled ‘Sunlight’ and finds vocalist Alex Biro even more confessional and stark than he has ever been before, which is saying something. Musically, the song is alt-rock at its most atmospheric and lingering, whilst lyrically it delivers a stream of consciousness in quick time. A mesh of thoughts, feelings and outbursts that are so often associated with isolation, which in the case of Biro, this comes from the start of his sobriety journey. Now four years clean and working as a sober coach and counsellor within the music industry, returning to the band in this way feels like a way to not just finally put those demons to bed but also show others what is possible. That it may feel awful now, but it does get better, even if it isn’t the way you think it will.

Here’s what he had to say about the song, explaining, “I don’t believe in being dishonest in my recovery. ‘Sunlight’ came out of a weekend six months into my sobriety when I’d come to realize that being sober didn’t mean happiness, peace, or calm. They don’t tell you in the hospital that things typically get worse in the first year before they get better. You’re left to take stock of how far you fell from who you were meant to be, and how much you let those you loved (and by proxy, your friends, bandmates, and fans) down in the process of self-immolating”.
 
“I had never wanted to live and die more at the same time. I had never felt the searing reality of how far I’d fallen from the mountain I’d climbed. ‘Sunlight’ to me is an attempt to triumph over the void of the hole I’d created in my own spirit”, he added. “A meditation on what it means to be painfully human in front of the world. To be fallible, to make mistakes, and to drink the dirtied water from a well you poisoned yourself.”

The song follows on from 2022’s ‘Newman’, which sounds a lot like this.



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