Track of the Week: Us Lot

Murkage Dave has always felt like a man of the people. With narratives vividly crafted from sobering tales of love, partying, mental health and society, Murkage flickers in the face of commercialism and over-produced drivel, burning away in his humble musings. 

His new offering Us Lot succeeds his affecting double drop at the back end of ’21, Please Don’t Move To London It’s A Trap / Awful Things, which saw Dave float further into the wavering waters of sad indie beats and introspective writing. Unlike the personal anguish that Dave insinuated on the previous release, Us Lot instead acts as rousing ode to friendship. With gentle vocals and lightly coloured instrumentation, the singer’s message of not giving up on friends and always remembering that you don’t know what people are going through is an important and powerful one. 

The release of the song was augmented by the visual drop around a week later. Playing out as a short film rather than a music video, director Ricky Gibb builds a poignantly painful - all too familiar - narrative of a messy afters. Everyone is either unable to talk or unable to stop talking, with one of the friends putting Us Lot on the aux, which results in everyone being brought back to a conscious state thanks to the subtly stirring anthem. 

Speaking on the songs release, Dave commented:

“Us Lot’ is a love song for every misunderstood friend, every black sheep, every prodigal child. I’d like to think I’ve written it for a few people I’m close to but maybe it’s just a letter to myself, I haven’t fully worked it out yet.”

The kind of name that everyone knows that still manages to go under the radar at times, it’s about time Dave got the flowers he deserved. His recent work has been the strongest of his career to date, and he is bound to only get better. We can’t wait to hear more from Murkage Dave!