Eaves Wilder has returned with a evocative and revealing new single ‘Everybody Talks’, out now via Secretly Canadian – It finds Eaves at her most confessional, unapologetic, and witty, growing from a doeful, intimate and vivid depiction of being overwhelmed by the noise of live music and the audience, into a crushing crescendo of widescreen guitars that are laced with echoes of the likes of Slowdive, and a earworm- like repeated refrain screamed to the heavens in frustration. Both intensely personal and yet universal, it’s a sonic assault on the senses that mirrors the trauma and intrusion Wilder feels from sensory overload.
In a wider sense, the track is about the overwhelm of modernity’s noise, but the song began from Eaves’ experiences playing support shows/festivals where she felt, quite literally, that ‘everybody talks’! Accompanying the track is a visual that places Eaves in the heart of the live music experience (at UK festivals) – headphones on, deadpan expression unshaken as festival crowds swirl around her, sharply ironic. Footage was filmed at festivals and gigs all over the UK, many of which are under threat due to lack of government funding in the arts. Eaves asks to consider donating to The Music Venue Trust to help keep these buildings up.
“Everybody takes / But they never give / I am running off of pure fear and adrenaline”.
– “That’s what it feels like to be in a band in 2025,” Eaves says.
“I’ve never experienced anything like it,” she recalls, “There were some girls at the front of the stage, just chatting really loudly all through my set. I could hear what they were saying – and, to be honest, some of it was actually quite funny. But I think what happened after that was something like an out of body experience.”
“When it feels like this rising waterline of punishing intrusive voices is up to your neck, and you’re trying to make yourself taller and taller, and shouting louder and louder, so you can keep your head up.”
“I wanted to write something that felt relentless – like it was almost too much. Because that’s how it feels right now. Too much. We’re all over-stimulated, and everybody is talking, and fighting, and most people need to literally shut the fuck up. This is what you chant when you want to drown everything else out. Like a big, dirty mantra.‘
LIVE DATES:
NOVEMBER
26 – The Lower Third, London (with Night Moves)
MAY
16 – Get Together Festival, Sheffield (with Fat Dog)
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