Premiere: Listen to SeanBarna’s GodSaveTheScene below
Seán Barna's"God Save the Scene" was written before the current pandemic that has most major metropolitan areas on lockdown, but it's message -- that society is well past the point where we need to collectively hit the brakes and consider our future -- couldn't be more timely., the track opens with a waft of haunting choral voices before Barna's own, which alternates between a gossamer falsetto and a wry, meditative tone reminiscent of Dan Bejar, takes over.
"This is a song I wrote while microdosing on mushrooms and driving across Nebraska in the middle of the night. All I could think about was how climate change is going to end our coastal societies and how we may all need to move to Nebraska," Barna opines. The lyrics, which predate the situation we find ourselves in, ring eerily prescient."In this song, the characters exist and interact while a certain state of oblivion begins to crumble, both the personal and societal," Barna explains."They sense impending disaster but do not entirely accept it.
"God Save the Scene" features Counting Crows' David Immergluck on mandolin and pedal steel; the band's Adam Duritz duetted with Barna on his last EP,
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