Drogheda Band Modernlove have got 2022 off to a flying start with the release of a new single, “Follow You”, on Valentine’s Day which is receiving rapturous praise from the music press.
Modernlove first made their mark on the local scene in 2018 at the Seafood Rocks festival and later that summer at the Maritime Festival.
Their onward journey has moved them quickly along and in August 2018 they launched their first single ‘US’ in Fusion night Club. That same year they went on to play The Trailer Park and Salty Dog stages at Electric Picnic.
A year later they won the final of the Firestone Battle of the Bands in Clarkes Bar and graduated from to gigs at Vantastival and Electric Picnic and also made the Hot Press “Hot for 2019” list.
Last year they signed a worldwide deal with the UK label Akira Records and released their debut EP called ‘Monochrome Blue’.
Modernlove said that “Follow You’ is a love song about the early stages of infatuation in a relationship.
“It’s about finding yourself in a relationship so intimate that spending each waking moment together still isn’t enough, hence the lyrics ‘when you fall asleep I’ll follow you.
“Musically, we wanted to write a song that resonated with the nostalgia of those same naive infatuations and took us back to when we first started the band as teenagers finding ourselves as people as well as artists.
“A simple four chord structure that echoed the likes of Bloc Party, The Cure and New Order. A song that we could fully jam on together and jump around to.”
To neatly underpin their confidence in Modernlove, Hot Press magazine made “Follow You” their track of the day on Monday.
The members of Modernlove are Barry Lally (vocals, guitar), Daniel Rooney (bass, synth), Graham Fagan (guitar, synth), and Cian McCluskey (drums).
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