Highline found a special place in my heart with their EP Overrun last year. It’s taken some time for this Eora/Sydney band to regroup, but they’ve come back strong with “Exit A,” their first release for 2023. It’s a gorgeous indie-rock ballad which shows they’re a real force to be reckoned with.
“Exit A is a song about losing a friend. It’s reflecting on the loss and realising that the writing was on the wall so to speak ‘I should have seen this coming from miles away’. It’s frustrating losing people that once meant so much to you and this song expresses that frustration,” explained frontman Sam Rigney. “The song captures the sadness that comes with witnessing this happen and the reflective emotions that come with recognising things aren’t how they used to be, and wondering whether you could have stopped it from happening. This song was one of those tunes where the general premise was always there but no progress was really made for about a year then it all sort of wrote itself within a couple of hours. The title came about because the chords were E and A, so we just called the song EA, which is how we arrived at Exit A.”
There’s more new music from Highline on its way, with the band promising to release their next EP in 2024. They’ve also just been announced on the bill for the Good Gumnuts Festival in Pakana Country/Heybridge on January 5 and 6.
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