- 2026-01-22
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MUSIC
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Searows Premieres New Song “In Violet” on BBC Radio 1
American singer-songwriter Alec Duckart, aka Searows will release his upcoming sophomore album “Death in the Business of Whaling” this Friday (January 23rd).
From the album, he premiered a new song “In Violet” on BBC Radio 1's Future Artists with Tara Kumar.
The song is the fourth and final pre-release single, following “Dirt”, “Photograph of a Cyclone”, and “Dearly Missed”.
It was written by Alec Duckart and produced by Trevor Spencer. The accompanying music visualizer was directed by Marlowe Ostara.
Alec Duckart said of the song, “In my head, this song is visually a very dramatic tale that is not nearly as mundane as the feelings I wrote it about. The song is essentially about not living up the version of yourself you wanted to show to someone, and the various types of disappointment that go with that. But I imagine it as this fantastical epic that lives up to the weight and the drama that those emotions feel like they have in real life.”- The album comprises 9 tracks, which he recorded with producer Trevor Spencer in a studio outside of Seattle.
It is the first time, she recorded the songs outside of his home studio.
The album title hails from a Moby Dick quote: “Yes, there is death in this business of whaling - a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.”
He said of the album, “I feel like so much of my inspiration with lyrics and sounds in general comes from the animals and nature. And I feel like it's pretty easy to find in Oregon and Washington, like it was very easy to be inspired by those things.” -
Alec Duckart told Atwood Magazine about the album title, “I obviously could tell at that point how much I had been writing about death, but in a nature-focused way. I was seeing it as a discontinuation of the process of life and looking at it with fascination. The quote reminded me of many different things, like the danger in what we do out in the open, trying to achieve something, chase after something, or look for something.”
Photo by Marlowe Osteara - source : BBC Radio 1
