Releasing their acclaimed debut LP Islands back in 2014, London band Bear’s Den unveil the first single taken from their second album Red Earth & Pouring Rain, out July 22nd via Communion. ‘Auld Wives’ deals with the issue of Alzheimer’s and trying to come to an understanding of it. Pulling inspiration from the sound of 80s rock, ‘Auld Wives’ is currently available for streaming on YouTube.

Touching on the single Andrew Davie of Bear’s Den wrote:

“Where my grandparents live in Scotland, and where my mum grew up, there’s this cottage I used to go to write. It’s always been a bit of an escape for me but also reminds me a lot of growing up, which has always been a trigger for me with songwriting. Nearby there’s three rocks called the Auld Wives Lifts. No one knows how they got there, and there are faces carved into the rocks. There’s all sorts of folk tales around them, that have stayed with me growing up. The song is about my grandad who lived near there. He developed Alzheimer’s in his old age. Knowing someone, and them not knowing you any more, is a difficult thing to go through. ‘Auld Wives’ became this way of talking about it, of venting about that feeling, and make more sense to me.”