Saint Saviour returns after three years with "Poetry"

"Poetry" was produced by Bill Ryder-Jones, and follows the 2020 album, Tomorrow Again.

“‘It’s all poetry’ is something a close friend said one day when we were discussing the bible during one of our marathon playground chats," says Jones. "Having no religion, this came as news to me and the seed of this idea stuck with me for ages. A text to keep chipping away at, re-interpreting, re-applying to your needs, a lifetime of wonder. The song looks at applying this same concept to life: “Little by little you’ll understand, little by little they’ll come to your hand”.”

“I’ve written this song at a time when life has been thrown into high contrast, and the biblical metaphors are suddenly more resonant. Nevertheless It’s an existential song about embracing the great mystery of love. There’s a link to Kierkegaard’s idea of ‘becoming’ which I was playing with the chorus’s concluding line," she continues.

"I’m happy because it’s the closest I think I’ve ever got to a lyrically simple song about love without subverting too much. In the studio, we wondered if the song needed another verse, but I wanted to allow the listener to reflect. Bill embraced this and built this incredible explosion of noise around what was originally a sad little whistle solo. I think it communicates so beautifully without words.”

“The video is shot around the mouth of the Tees where I grew up, a ‘Smoggie’. My grandfather brought the family from Wales in the 60’s to work in the Dorman Long Steelworks in Teesside, and in the year I was born, my dad took a job at the Seal Sands chemical plant, remaining there for 40 years on shift. He aided the long shutdown of the site as his last task before retirement," Jones continues.

"The footage comes from a series of films I have always loved, courtesy of local filmmaker (and Seal Sands former employee) Maxy Bianco, whose work focuses on the industrial breakdown of the area and how local characters thrive alternatively, interacting with nature, finding wonder in an unlikely place. In Iris Murdoch's philosophy she talked about the act of 'unselfing', something I have thought much about in recent years and explore in my writing."