Ah, the good old days, when the COVID pandemic was brand new…
OK, those weren’t “good” days. They also weren’t that long ago, so “old” probably doesn’t fit here, either. But, they did happen…
At any rate, we offer you the latest single from Nature’s Neighbor. On “Perch Privileges,” the indie rockers take a gentler, R&B-kissed tone that looks back on the early days of the pandemic — and the hysteria that set in, as we all tried to figure out exactly what the heck was going on.
“It was mass hysteria and I partly bought into it all myself,” says Mike Walker of Nature’s Neighbor. “I remember going out and wearing swimming goggles, two pairs of gloves, and a ski mask thinking that we would surely get the virus and that we were going end up on ventilators in the intensive care unit by week’s end. Basically, I was going insane.”
As the world begins to reopen — and the hysteria continues to wind down — Walker finds himself in more of a reflective mood, while keeping the fear and uncertainty of that time in mind.
“Now that it has been a year and things have calmed down a bit, we can reflect back on that time and realize just how genuinely frightening it all was,” Walker said.
