Primal Scream have released a second single from their forthcoming 12th album, Come Ahead.
Deep Dark Waters is a cautionary tale exploring colonialism, hardening attitudes towards refugees from war-torn lands, xenophobia, fanaticism, intolerance and political violence, which the band say is holding up a mirror to "the dark undercurrent of our times'.
One verse of the song runs:
"Our fortress continent
Our values torn and bent
We bomb and when they run
We tell them they can’t come"
In a statement about the song, vocalist Bobby Gillespie says, “Deep Dark Waters is influenced by the writings of Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi. It contains a warning from history. ‘Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it’.”
