Indie pop outfit Divine Sweater’s new single, “Light Taker,” is a crash course in self-destruction. Divine Sweater encourages you to run on minimal sleep, start a fight, break things, let your body ache, and never stop moving. Grungy, heated, and explosive, the song mimics the tumultuous feeling of spiraling completely out of control in the throes of the night. On an album about self-transformation, “Light Taker” is the catalyst speeding up the chemical reaction.
Divine Sweater will release their brand new studio album, A Time For Everything, on September 13 via Better Company Records. The deceivingly upbeat and breathtaking collection of shimmering indie pop, features production by Better Company honcho and San Fermin founder Allen Tate.
A Time For Everything is a record of ends and beginnings, meditating on one’s ability to deal with mortality, loss & grief and having the strength to reset and come out stronger on the other end. Fearlessly honest and strapped with sonic influences spanning Haim, Alvvays, First Aid Kit and Angel Olsen, the notably darker subject matter represents Divine Sweater’s immersion into uncertain realms, achieving catharsis through the process as they wrestled with mortality.
Frontperson/vocalist Meghan Kelleher reflects, “Over the past couple of years, our whole band really did a lot of wrestling with mortality. We’ve lost a lot of our loved ones, and attended a lot of funerals. Death is just this other chapter in life. It’s just inevitable.” Change is also inevitable, and as Kelleher found herself weighed down by successive personal losses, she and guitarist/vocalist Sean Seaver pulled up stakes in Boston and relocated to Brooklyn. “I felt like I was living a version of my life that wasn’t authentic and didn’t align with what I actually wanted,” she recalls. “We just uprooted and totally changed everything. I feel like I really reset my life and am a different person now than I was before.”
What do you think of Divine Sweater’s latest, “Light Taker”?
