POLARIS SHARE BRAND NEW SINGLE & VIDEO ‘OVERFLOW’
Since the tragic passing of guitarist Ryan Siew earlier this year Polaris have vowed to continue with their scheduled tours and album release in his memory. Today, ahead of the release of their new album Fatalism (due out on 1st September) they have dropped new single and video ‘Overflow‘. The song showcases the bands melodic capacities with soaring emotion filled melodies, beautifully layered guitars, atmospheric soundscapes and huge choruses that really drive the themes of the song home. It’s another superb demonstrating of the diversity of the band’s song writing and a tribute to the talent Ryan possessed.
“This is one of the much more personal and vulnerable tracks on the record lyrically, whereas the other two singles took a wider, more outward perspective,” shares drummer and lyricist Daniel Furnari. “I feel like the meaning of the song is fairly self explanatory, and I think a lot of people will naturally interpret it through the lens of their own experiences, but essentially for me it’s about the struggle of fighting off a panic attack and the impact of that struggle on others… Overflow was another track that came about from one of our writing retreats, so I guess that system was really paying off at this point… We were pretty deep into the process at this point, I think this was actually the final track to make it onto the record. Jake had been pumping out simple chord sequences in an effort to break away from the busier, riffier stuff we’d been writing, and Ryan came in with this super catchy sliding lead over the top, which became the basis for the chorus and the central motif of the song. Stylistically, where Inhumane explored a sort of nu-metal direction and Nightmare was a straight up metalcore track in the truest sense, I’d say Overflow is much more of an alt-rock track.”
Touching on the evolution of ‘Overflow‘, Furnari reveals: “I think my favourite part of this song is the direction the second verse takes, particularly when it picks up the energy for a moment. Rick wrote this verse development that really leaned into the sound of bands like Basement and Balance & Composure, which we both love, so it’s always satisfying when we find a way to somehow incorporate that alongside the heavier stuff that we more regularly do. Finding a way to get a big heavy section into this song without it feeling out of place was also a challenge and I love that we managed to shape this combination of sliding powerchord accents, crazy programming and bass and drum moments into a type of breakdown we hadn’t accomplished before.”
You can watch the accompanying music video below which was recorded before Ryan’s passing:
Polaris will launch their new album Fatalism this September with an Australian headline tour alongside August Burns Red, Kublai Khan TX and Currents, before embarking on an international run supporting While She Sleeps in the UK and Europe, performing at Aftershock 2023 and kicking off a North American headline run in October.
