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Nov 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Longwave

Last month Longwave returned with “Stay With Me,” their first new song in 10 years. Now the song has a video. Dave Doobinin of Follette Films directed the psychedelic video. Watch it below.

Frontman Steve Schiltz had this to say about the song in a press release: “‘Stay With Me’ is a love song, albeit not really in a typical guy-girl-hold hands type way. A while back now, a family member of mine was diagnosed with cancer. It looked bad, and we were pretty sure we were going to lose him. This was someone I’d had in my life as far back I can remember. I was worried about him, and it occurred to me, what is his wife going to do? I couldn’t imagine the grief she was preparing to withstand.

“It was at this moment in time that I wrote the words for this song. I was thinking about her loss, which wasn’t going to simple - it clearly meant she was going to have to carry on without him. What was that going to look like for her?

“In the end, against all odds, he beat the cancer into remission, and at this time there is no detectable cancer. It was truly a miracle. So, this was a case of everyone winning here…I got the song, and our family gets to keep him.”

The New York shoegaze band formed in 1999 and released four albums, most notably 2002’s sophomore album, The Strangest Things, which was produced by Dave Fridmann and released by RCA. The band split up after 2008’s fourth album, Secrets Are Sinister, but have recently reformed. Longwave have also recently launched a PledgeMusic campaign to record a new album.

“Stay With Me” is out now digitally and on 7-inch via Bodan Kuma Recordings.

Longwave Tour Dates:

Headlining:

11.17 - New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

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