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Sep 27, 2024 By Mark Redfern Photography by Róisín Murphy O'Sullivan

Dublin six-piece Silverbacks are releasing their third album, Easy Being a Winner, on October 18 via Central Tones / Cargo. Now they have shared another new song from it, “Giving Away an Inch Of.” Listen below.

Vocalist Kilian O’Kelly had this to say about the song in a press release: “This one is a love song and mostly about the balance of relationships. The main idea was that one of the lovers was going to be pleading for a little bit more compromise from their other half. I wanted to have lots of ties to nature too and I think Nick Cave’s version of ‘nature boy’ played a part there. Emma and I now have a garden in Drogheda, and with it has come a newfound interest in plants! Red hot pokers are probably one of our favorites. I always like it when human emotions are conveyed by the natural world. The delivery of red hot pokers coming out of the chorus is inspired by Elvis’s ‘Poke-Salad-Annie’ performance in Vegas.”

Silverbacks’ complete lineup is Daniel O’Kelly (vocals/guitar), Kilian O’Kelly (guitar/vocals), Emma Hanlon (vocals/bass), Paul Leamy (bass), Peadar Kearney (guitar), and Gary Wickham (drums).

The album includes “Selling Shovels,” which the band released in July and was chosen as one of our Songs of the Week. When the album was announced the band shared “Something I Know,” also one of our Songs of the Week.

Easy Being a Winner follows the band’s 2022 album Archive Material and their 2020 debut album, Fad.

Read our 2020 The End interview with Silverbacks.

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