But what happens after the rain is the most beautiful thing that we get to be a part of.”

Normally when it rains, you’re like, ‘Fuck, got to take out an umbrella, fuck, now my shoes are gonna be wet’. They got caught in a downpour, and when it stopped, Wahidah remembers, “the whole of Coney Island woke up and came alive. ‘Further’, particularly its resonant final lines, was inspired by a life-changing hike Wahidah and Borces took at Coney Island (which is still known for a resident wild cow even though it died in 2016). ‘Kaka The Cat’ – already a fan favourite – cribs Kurt Vile’s slacker cadences to tell the sad, true story of the time Borces’ cat fell ill, and how he had to clean out the band fund to pay the vet bills (Kaka recovered just fine and Borces eventually paid back the $800 he borrowed, they hasten to note). Though ‘Nature Of Things’ gives voice to these broader societal concerns, the record’s defining moments of charm and beauty stem from personal experience and revelatory events in the duo’s own lives. “ Thought you’d care about the world, but you don’t mind,” she sings, “ It brings me to tears to see nothing change / We’ve pushed her to this.” Subsonic Eye are not naive observers: ‘Nature Of Things’ opens with ‘Consumer Blues’, a dreamy ditty that breezily summarises our impulses to buy for pleasure: “ Don’t care ’bout nothing / I just want my things / I don’t know what, what I need / And what I need is given to me.” And it closes with ‘Unearth’, where Wahidah metabolises the suffocating climate anxiety that both pop stars (The 1975, Billie Eilish) and the avant garde (ANOHNI, Massive Attack) have tried to exorcise in their own music. It’s just flying around.” Borces adds, “You’re just an observer of this beautiful thing happening.”

You’re just this tiny subject in a whole forest, you’re looking at this bird but the bird doesn’t even know you’re looking. When it comes to being in nature and bird-watching, you’re not actively interacting with the birds. “I’ve always been really passionate about the environment,” Wahidah says.

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