Syrups

"Syrups" starts off with Yannis Philippakis singing personal lines about his parents and a desire to escape. The second half of the song is set in London and was inspired by the walks home the singer would take late at night from the studio when he'd walk under Victorian brick railway arches and see foxes everywhere. The sight of the wild creatures would make him think about how the cities and our urban environments are changing from when Britain was an industrial powerhouse.

Philippakis told Consequence of Sound what he wanted to put in the song was his feeling that the best times are behind us. "There's no record shops anymore, there's no bookshops anymore, and people are being replaced by AI," he said. "This feeling of the environment becoming neutered and depopulated, and how as a kid being excited about living in a city and now feeling like the best days are behind, in a way."