New Model Army releases new single "Unforgiven"

Today New Model Army’s founder and singer/songwriter Justin Sullivan unveils his third single “Unforgiven”, taken from his highly anticipated new studio album “Surrounded”, the first in 18 years, and second solo album overall.

“I have always been most drawn to the combination of violence and beauty in art because that seems to be the underlying truth of Nature and the way I perceive the world to be – and almost everything I write is underpinned by nature imagery.”, says Justin Sullivan. “Sometimes I visit a place where the atmosphere and the ghosts from the past seem to overwhelm anything happening in the present. I reach for a notebook and put down every impression that comes – stories, light, weather, geography, and that strange feeling of time being completely liquid. With ‘Unforgiven’ I found all these sketched ideas back at home many months later and then it’s just a question of remembering the feelings of the place, what happened and piecing it together.

The outcome is nothing short of an awe-inspiring and emotional composition. “Musically I went round the houses a bit with this one, trying to choose how much and what instrumentation to use.”, says Justin Sullivan. ”In the end I decided to keep the simple guitar riffs that runs through the song quite prominent and added Jon Thorne’s bass, Henning Nugel’s orchestration and minimal percussion so it has some of the vastness and hard beauty of the landscape described and an undercurrent of the violence that the place has seen.”

Listen to “Unforgiven” here: https://JustinSullivan.lnk.to/Unforgiven