Militarie Gun – ‘Thought You Were Waving’

Posted on the 05 August 2024 by Spectralnights
Photo credit: Manuel Casanova

Militarie Gun have shared ‘Thought You Were Waving’ – their first new music since the release of their debut album ‘Life Under the Gun’ in 2023.

The song – created with Zachary Dawes (Lana Del Rey, Sharon Van Etten) – finds the Los Angeles-based four-piece in a scuzzy and desperate mood from its opening moments: ‘Too busy trying to keep myself out of trouble, I just didn’t understand. I froze, I froze, I froze’. They then look back at the subject’s plea for help with pure emotion: ‘I thought you were waving, turns out you were drowning. Really wish I could read your mind’. This is all delivered with the kind of relatable angst that serves The Hotelier and La Dispute so well…