Crown The Empire have taken another step deeper into their new era with a beautifully atmospheric new track, ‘Violet’.
‘Violet’ follows on from ‘raw’, which signalled a shift in sound that the duo say is their final form. And in picking up where that tune left off, the band dive deeper into the atmospheric and sultry.
Brimming with 808 textures and soulful refrains, it is a woozy and wistful piece of alternative wonderment that shows that all bets are truly off in terms of who and what Crown The Empire can be.
The band had this to say about it:
“’violet’ illustrates a toxic relationship. When someone completely isolates you, brainwashes you into believing you’re a horrible person and that they’re the only one who really cares about you, you slowly start to lose who you are. It’s an obsessive, possessive kind of love rooted in the mentality of ‘if I can’t have you, no one can.’ You’re being controlled by someone who demands absolute devotion and threatens destruction at the thought of losing you. It’s about recognizing how dangerous that kind of love can become, but somehow still finding yourself drawn to the very thing that’s destroying you.”
And here is ‘raw’ to get you completely caught up: