Hope Of The States’ Sam Herlihy launches captivating new solo single ‘Insignificance’ via text-based adventure game

Hope Of The States ‘ Samuel J Herlihy has dropped a new solo single ‘Insignificance’ via a text-based adventure game – find out more below.

READ MORE: Hope Of The States on their return: “It’s loud, it’s messy, it has all that heart in it” The new music comes following the singer announcing last year that he would be embarking on a solo career , and dropping his first single, ‘The Entire Span of Human Existence’.

He went on to play a debut solo show in London, and hinted that he had a full solo album on the way, which would be entirely self-produced and recorded on the same cassette that he used to record his first-ever songs when he was 13.

“These songs are kind of sad, and funny, and heavy and odd and are I guess memorials of a sort to everyone’s friends,” he said at the time.

“Weird childhoods, unhappy accidents and insane luck.

They are for Them here, and Them long gone.

I’d love anyone to come and hear me play.” Now he has announced debut album ‘Poltergeist’, and released brand new track ‘Insignificance’.

Starting out with nods to early Bob Dylan material, the song begins with an intriguing instrumental melody, before gradually building until it reaches a final chorus filled with fuzz-dominated guitars.

View this post on Instagram At time of writing, the song is only available via a text based adventure ‘game’ which provides context and narrative to the lyrics, although a digital release will be dropped at a later date.

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Discussing the single, Herlihy shared: “I think I’d seen the Dylan movie , the one with Willy Wonka [ Timothée Chalamet ] in it, and was thinking how those first couple of records were so great and I hadn’t really listened to them in years.

Then the first line is a nod to the Jim O’Rourke record ‘Insignificance’, I remember hearing that record years ago and really loving it, thinking how trad but out-there it is simultaneously.

“A bunch of the songs on the record are about other bands’ music and how those people and their songs are fucking important to me,” he added.

“Dylan, [ Spiritualized ‘s] Jason Pierce, Kurt Cobain are iconoclasts.