Your Acting's like The End of the World

It is a major travesty that there is only one video of The Drones performing this live, and it isn't of the best quality. I am digging this song so hard at the moment, it's probably becoming my favourite track on their 2008 epic Havilah. And it's not like it didn't have competition, amongst a number of truly brilliant songs on that record.

It might just be the catchiest song Gareth Liddiard has written. On an album as filled with monster riffs and heavy dissonance as Havilah, the fact they chose to end it with a light acoustic number like this one is astounding. And yet it takes nothing away from its weight and emotional heft as a closer. The song itself is made by the lovely interplay between Liddiard on rhythm guitar and Dan Luscombe's delicate embellishments on the lead.

As usual with any Liddiard song, the lyrics are a highlight as well. He always delivers some cracking lines, whatever the subject matter of the song. This one feels alot more personal, at least compared to songs where he's singing about anything from worldwide injustice to astronauts peeing in their spacesuits. In this one, the lyrics hint at personal tragedy and a failed relationship, belied by the humorous wordplay and the jovial mood of the music. In fact, the dark and morbid humour that Liddiard hides in his lyrics are one of my favourite things about The Drones. Favourite line in this song? 'You should move out to the country man, and look after your health / These cities show you to your seat, and then they make you eat yourself'

Four years is too long a time to be waiting for a new album from The Drones. A band i desperately need to see live too.

The Drones - Your Acting's Like The End of the World