POD favorites Marrow have released the title track off their forthcoming album The Gold Standard. The new track is a somber slow-churner, that builds excellently with bigger guitar parts and hard-thumping drums. This instantly made me think of Led Zeppelin’s “Since I’ve Been Loving,” except “The Gold Standard” is a bit less of a Blues epic.
According to guitarist Liam Kazar, the song is loosely inspired by Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” saying:
“I remember seeing that painting in high school and thinking it seemed so honest and pure… I fell in the love with it. ‘The Gold Standard’ was our small attempt at creating something as true as that painting. It was one of the first songs we recorded for the record and is also one of the only songs that had all four of us in the same room, playing at once, with no click and no splicing together of takes.”
Hear the track below.
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