“It’s about not being ready to feel my feelings. Like life is happening on the other side of a heavy curtain — like each day is a drill for the real thing.”

“The Darling Song is about falling in love from afar. What begins as harmless admiration spirals into fantasies of a life together — before desperation takes over, and all you want is to hear them call you ‘darling,’ even just once.”

“This song is about finding strength and safety in your own body. Haters will hate, but we keep going.”

“I’m a child again, riding in the back of a car. A hole in the roadside beckons me to enter. I slip away like condensation into a pastel world where dolphins swim through turquoise streams and fruit trees twist in bonsai proportions. Then I realize I’ve been left behind.”

“One summer at my grandparents’ house, we found a stray piglet on the road. Babe was my favourite film, and I had begged for a piglet that year. My grandpa, known for his practical jokes, might have orchestrated it—or maybe it was fate. They never made a third Babe film, but we lived it.”

“The song came from that feeling of trying to connect with someone who was always just out of reach. Mike and I even layered in the sound of a New Zealand busy tone as a kind of sonic metaphor. It’s funny and devastating at the same time.”

“The ick isn’t just a feeling—it’s a deep, existential betrayal. It’s realizing they’re not the flawless masterpiece you invented in your head, but rather a person who says ‘boys will be boys’ unironically. There’s no recovering from it, so we figured we might as well write a song about it. Call it a public service.”

“We almost tried to squeeze it onto our EP back in 2022. But it felt too special—it deserved its own spotlight.”

“It’s the most typical love song you’ll find on the album. Written with hearts in my eyes, full of optimism about life and the future … like floating between two storms, momentarily forgetting the hardships and focusing on how sweet and warm it can feel to be in love.”

“the distortion of reality and the uncomfortability of death. It’s a reminder that anyone, including myself, is susceptible to distortion.”

“It’s about staying where you are when told to leave, making a fuss, and taking up more space. In Ireland, making music without fleeing abroad is already an act of stubborn optimism. Sure, sometimes you’re crying in Lidl or dreaming of Australia — but you’re still standing. That’s our kind of ‘big girl.’”

“I wasn’t honest about what I was feeling, or about my sexuality. This was my way of saying what I couldn’t at the time.”

Bassist Ciara King describes the track as “an ode to every single burnout episode that any creative has ever had. It’s important to break the fourth wall sometimes and say, ‘this is really hard, isn’t it? You can be exhausted and still love your craft. This one goes out to all our burnt out pals. Keep going.”

“‘sportscar’ is an interesting addition to the deluxe because spittake almost had a different identity. At one point, I considered naming the album Check Engine Light On. I didn’t realize how central the theme of cars was until after writing it.”

“This is the most emotional project I’ve ever made. It holds my new grief, my longing, and all the tiny moments that pulled me through.”

Described as a love letter never sent, Call Me is raw and intimate, built on airy vocals and minimal, dreamy production. Anchored by the haunting line, “maybe someday I’ll love and he won’t have your face,” the song captures the ache of lingering love and the quiet hope of moving on.

“It had been so long since I’d felt that way. I romanticised everything — which I think is necessary to cope with the distance. We’re in different countries, speaking different languages, but we still share this bond.”

“I didn’t intend for something so intimate to become a song, but songs have a funny way of finding you and giving you language for the things you didn’t know you needed to name.”

“It’s about that moment when you’re not sure if your crush feels the same. You want to leave the party, but then they arrive, and suddenly you could stay all night.”