Tar & Honey - Maxi Curnow | Official Music Video

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Video edited by Rory McLean and Maxi Curnow
All parts written and recorded by Maxi Curnow.

Mixed by George Lever and Maxi Curnow
Drums engineered by George Lever @ Middle Farm Studios
Mastered by Luke Martin
Drums performed by Doug Harper
MU and filming by Silvija Vil
Special thanks to Sam Robson for helping me with the vocals!
Special thanks to Matt Ball for being a legend and showing his sexy face in the video!

Behind the lyrics:
Tar & Honey is about our journey through pain, how we move through it and ultimately recovery from past
traumas. The central theme is gaslighting;

“Sleeping triggers wake again
Gaslit echoes of tar and honey slipping down my throat”
It’s the idea of being told something is safe and sweet, when it is actually poison to you. I’m sure we can all
relate to this happening in some way.

“Pain can't dissipate
It just gets passed on
Person to person, generation to generation
And now it's out burden"

But when we go through these things, we can start to acknowledge how pain works, and make an effort to
understand it better as a universal problem, that suffering can be learnt through conditioning.

So ultimately this song is about harnessing that knowledge to heal:

“I became intimate with my fear
Befriended dread serves me
Now life whispers hope into my ears
Now I shiver and follow it's gentle signs”

That’s what Tar & Honey is all about :) I wrote it to help me set my head straight after a tough time in my life,
and hopefully it can do the same for others too.

Lyrics:
Fear don't hunt me down
I will not beg
I will not pray for less

Mystery wrap yourself around me
I'll let the shame and the regret go
To be as I want to be

I can't say it but I know how it feels
Spinning out is the epitome of losing sense of myself
I can't expect you to empathize
Just buy me time

Sleeping triggers wake again
Gaslit echoes of tar and honey, tar and honey
Slipping down my throat
And I'll question if it was easy
To pour tar and honey
Tar and honey into me

Pain can't dissipate
It just gets passed on
Person to person, generation to generation
And now it's out burden

Can we transmute this?
From tar to honey?

I became intimate with my fear
Befriended dread serves me
Now life whispers hope into my ears
Now I shiver and follow it's gentle signs

Sleeping triggers wake again
Gaslit echoes of tar and honey, tar and honey
Slipping down my throat
And I'll question if it was easy
To pour tar and honey
Tar and honey into me

Can we transmute this?
From tar to honey?

Mystery wrap yourself around me
I'll let the shame and the regret go
We can be who we want to be

#MaxiCurnow #TarAndHoney #Strandberg

[Dragonfly_Doom]

I was introduced to your music today, absolutely killer tunes! 🤘

[thereluctanthermit]

can't even begin to reiterate....my dude, your music is some of the best i've heard in a long time

[Peter-xzmt]

This band is severely under appreciated.

[harveymagher]

being able to sing like that, play like that, and write something like this is nothing short of insane. fucking ace tune man! x

[johnthicc]

Wow this was just a YouTube ad and I didn't think it'd be any good but it was actually really good, heavy prog metal vibes

[thereluctanthermit]

Im hoping when the pandemic is over and i visit my cousin in england i'll hear you are doing a show. Been showing all my mates your music, because i'm still blown away!

[plamoz]

SOUNDS SICKKKK CANT WAIT TO HEAR MORE FROM YALLL

[ledooni]

Your songwriting is truly outstanding and among the best out there. I love your stuff and this might be my favorite so far!

[Ravesinger]

Literally my new favorite sound...mate, I'm so glad i saw this
Really resonate with this song

[cerulean]

This intensified my lust and desire to buy a strandberg, I love the monuments style vocals and riffage, I could not have asked for a better single this year!!! ❤

[madhacker]

Bros, can we have I have to see y'all live! Awesome job!

[grapedigger]

Wow pretty good, sounds different from anyone right now

[LushVoxx]

I’m so glad I found this ❤️❤️❤️New sub

[saishashanka]

Sounds fucking sick! Keep it up guys, love this.