Cheltenham based duo Saint Senara, aka Chloe and Andrew, are certainly making an impact with their music. Music that can deliver sweet harmonies in their Cornish influenced folk songs, all the way through to electrifying, blues influenced, rock. A new single following up on their recently released EP, Under My Skin, ‘There’s A Storm Coming’’, is wonderfully atmospheric with the dark clouds rolling in ever closer. The song opens, the lull before the storm, building slowly, heavens darken, too late to run for cover before all hell breaks loose. Thunderous skies threaten menacingly, Andrew kicks in the bass drum, “there’s a storm coming the tide is getting higher and no place left to hide”. You could take it literally, as climatic changes put islands under threat, continents burn, lives lost to floods, or you can view this song much more personally. Drifting relationships, financial nightmares, Family loss, whatever such ominous forebodings are delivered in this song, it will leave its mark on you.
Chloe and Andrew have delivered another stupendous song, full of superb harmonies, but sizzling with pent up energy, just maybe they are the storm that’s about to break, take a listen and you will be thunderstruck.
Back in the burgeoning days of the Britrock scene, I’m talking 60’s, when I was a scruffy teenager, singles followed the album release, with the charts targeted. Today singles drip in, have their airing through streaming and social media, then along comes the album? I’d really like to think that Saint Senara are laying the path for just that, and this is one hell of a paving slab. When the album breaks,and it surely will, I for one will be seeking a copy. Just maybe, the Storm Coming is just the preliminary and as sure as climate change, it will prove a climatic arrival.
Would you start a fight you know you can’t win? Would you come so far from where you have been? there’s a storm coming and no place left to hide, let it just wash over you, before you start building that ark.