A very Mac The Knife love song.

Maybe you wouldn’t expect a song of loving devotion to be the EP opener from the band who brought you ‘Curb My Bite’, ‘Blood Of My Blood’, or ‘Icarus’, but Mac The Knife are no ordinary outfit. And ‘I Live In Awe’ is no ordinary love song…

“Love’s a mountain you can’t measure. You stand at the bottom, neck craned, clouds swallowing the peak,” frontman Bryn Chapman Parish says. “You don’t climb it, you just feel it pressing down, pulling up. That’s what this song is. ‘I Live in Awe’. Our first crack at a love song.”

Kicking off their Down to the Wire EP, which dropped a few weeks back, the track begins with a mini-symphonic vocal moment that sounds like it was plucked from a medieval choir practice recording. Frankly we could’ve enjoyed this for a little longer, but dwelling on a motif “just cos” is not the MTK style.

Thankfully the track only ascends from there. With a verse and chorus delivered with pluck and angst, followed by a kinda breakbeat verse that never reappears but is a scintillating gear shift for the band, before more chaos ensues.

The visuals for the tune, which were directed by Conor Mercury, are fittingly dark and stormy, with the band giving us a taste of what’s to come on their national EP tour which kicks off tomorrow. Check out the dates below and head here for tickets.