Of Mice & Men share title-track from upcoming Timeless EP

Of Mice & Men have followed up January single Obsolete with another new song: Timeless.

The title-track to the California metalcore crew's upcoming EP, vocalist/bassist Aaron Pauley reveals: "Timeless is a song about becoming increasingly aware of impermanence, written through somewhat of a somber, yet romantic, lens.

"At the beginning of the pandemic, I was watching a lot of black and white movies. One of my favourite movies is Casablanca. I wonder if any original copies exist. You know, although that movie is universally regarded as being timeless, the actual celluloid is so fragile. But I think we find a special kind of vibrance in life when we're aware of our own impermanence."

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Of the Timeless EP as a whole, Aaron previously shared that it was written "before the initial lockdowns in spring of 2020".

"There’s an old idiom about what you’re supposed to do when life gives you lemons," he said. "Sadly, to disappoint, this wasn’t exactly that. We started writing this EP shortly before the initial lockdowns in spring of 2020, before we knew that our world was about to become a radically different place. A lot of these songs were born from a place of wondering how we’d fit into 2020 and beyond, both as adults in our 30s as well as a band that’s a decade into our existence."

Timeless is due out on February 26 via SharpTone Records.

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