The Sleaze release video for new single 'Sometimes I Feel'

Dublin-based five-piece The Sleaze have just released the video for newest track, ‘Sometimes I Feel'.

The rising band’s new song details the struggles of making it in modern life, and a sense of displacement in trying to find your own. Viewers will recognise some well-known spots around the capital city in the black-and-white visuals, directed by Sam Mulcahy.

Diary-like lyrics such as “The only jobs were on telephones/ And the rent was too high,” describe the underwhelming monotony of day-to-day life. “It was enough to get by...I got a bed-sit in Ranelagh/ And a shirt and a tie.”

The song’s melancholic confessional recital nearly reads as though lyrics that were scrawled on the inside of bathroom walls, offering comfort and a shared experience to a generation struggling.

Influenced by the likes of Thin Lizzy and The Doors; the impact of these band’s iconic sounds can be heard in a country-twang hybrid in the melody and vocals of The Sleaze.

In a subtle but distinctive shift into a new phrase of the track roughly three-quarters of the way through, the repeated line, “I'm a fire my love and I'll only go slowly home/ into the mouth of the sun” eventually sings the song out.

Accompanied by soft drums and chiming cymbals, introducing this new part, it leaves time for a powerful crescendo and an impassioned wailing that announces the song's end.

Prior to their latest release, the group most recently unveiled their new single, 'Momma's Rich' earlier this year. Previous releases include 'Born on the Wrong Side' in 2021, 'Scroungers' in 2020, and their 2019 EP Tell Me I'm Wrong in 2019.

The outfit performed at Workman's, Dublin last Saturday (December 17th).

Check out the new video for 'Sometimes I Feel' below.