These days you’re lucky to get a 3 minute song released, let alone anything remote above that. With attention spans drastically reducing, Brighton outfit School Disco clearly still believes in the listening experience. The group have released their new single ‘What You Do, What You Say’, which is taken from their upcoming album SDIV out February 20th via Krautpop!. The duration runs at a whopping 8 minute and 16 seconds. .

What you get with ‘What You Do, What You Say’ is a full throttled blast of psychedelic hitting with metal riffs at times, stabby gospel organs during certain points, and ghostly vocals above production that could be dubbed as grunge meets goth at other parts of the cut. There are change ups throughout the track which feels like chapters that ultimately make up the complete book. ‘What You Do, What You Say’ is truly a musical journey in the best way, fostering the nostalgia of bands from the days of old who would perform a track that morphed into a 10 minute jam.

Regarding the ‘What You Do, What You Say’, School Disco wrote:

“Lyrically, ‘What You Do what you say’ was the last lyrics I wrote for the album, and we basically had the entire song mixed before I had lyrics for it. I just decided to take the approach of setting up a microphone and singing what came to me, and what you hear on the record is basically the first take for a couple of the verses. I think sometimes it’s easy to think about things too much, and the pressure of making an album and wanting to be good can get in the way of just letting things happen and existing in a spontaneous way, which is what of a lot of the approach for the band playing. Therefore, it does sort of make sense why this worked. Harry helped by being in the room and helping break down some of my own insecurities about singing and lyrics,s which i do personally find the hardest bit of the whole process. I think the lyrics somewhat reflect this, What you do and what you say, does it really matter anyway? Are people listening to lyrics, does it matter what I say vs what people think the lyrics are about? who knows? Maybe someone will have more meaning for them.

Musically, this was the song that also took the longest to write, but was maybe the most fun, it’s complicated structure and was one of the hardest, most challenging songs to play, but I totally love it harmonically and the way it sounds, I think everything sits so nice together I especially love the sound of the fender rhodes on this song. Obviously, a big jam at the end is always great to play live and explore.”