Saintseneca Announce Pillar of Na, Share Lead Single “Frostbiter” and Tour Dates
Images via Nick Fancher, Anti- Records
Saintseneca have announced that their forthcoming record Pillar of Na will be out on ANTI- Records on Aug. 31. Along with the album announcement comes news of the band’s first headlining tour in three years, which will kick off at the end of August and run until the end of October.
The album’s title channels the idea of memories, a theme that courses throughout the record. The name references the Biblical story of Lot whose wife looks back at the burning city of Sodom and turns into a pillar of salt (the chemical symbol for sodium is Na) for her disobedience to God. This looking back or remembering appears in the lead single from Pillar of Na, “Frostbiter,” which brings up an assortment of memories, including the death of a grandfather and a childhood friendship.
“I think of this song as a big tree trunk in the woods where people carve their messages—initials, jokes, ‘I love you’ hearts … It is a work of accumulation,” Saintseneca singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Zac Little said of “Frostbiter.”
At the end, a static-y recording clips in and a voice can be heard saying, “sad happy day.” The passage of time is expressed in the statement, “that’s only three months that’s no time at all.” Little said he aimed to incorporate elements he didn’t often hear in folk music, and this clip may be one of those efforts.
“I wanted to use the idiom of folk-rock, or whatever you want to call it, and to try to do something that had never been done before,” Little explains. “To reach way back, echoing ancient folk melodies, tie that into punk rock, and then push it into the future.”