Album Review: Saint Agnes - 'Bloodsuckers'
‘Bloodsuckers’ celebrates being emotionally vulnerable and emphasises the strength in admitting that you’re struggling.
July 21st sees UK-hailing four-piece Saint Agnes releasing their newest album ‘Bloodsuckers.’ Saint Agnes released their debut album ‘Welcome to Silvertown’ in 2019. The last few years have been packed full of UK and European tours, as well as festivals such as Download, 2000 Trees, Isle of Wight festival and Kendal Calling.
The album opens with the title track ‘Bloodsuckers’ and the album immediately promises to be one that’s going to be an enjoyable listen. The track feels cathartic when you listen to it, it feels like you can just let go of everything going on in your life for a moment while you just get lost in the song.
‘I Mean Nothing To You’ is perhaps a sentiment many listeners may be able to relate to, at so many points of our lives we may find ourselves thinking that we don’t mean anything to those around us – and often it is difficult to overcome these beliefs we have about ourselves. The track voices these feelings and the way they impact us, making us realise that we are not alone in those experiences and in a way, makes it feel a little less isolating.
The album ‘Bloodsuckers’ was created in the months after the unexpected death of vocalist Kitty’s mother, and it explores many different themes including mental illness, undying love and grief.
The song ‘This Is Not The End’ is an emotionally raw one, filled with Kitty’s grief. The emotions in this song are so powerful and moving, that you feel like you are almost experiencing these emotions first hand when you listen to this track.
The eighth song of the album is called ‘At War With Myself’ and is a feeling many of us will be well acquainted with from various points of our lives, and we have and will most likely continue to be our own worst enemy at times. The track captures the complicated emotions we experience when we’ve ultimately become our own enemy, as well as exploring the frustration we also feel during these times for not being able to break a seemingly unending cycle.
On the topic of the album as a whole Kitty concluded that, “creating this album gave me a reason to get to my feet at a time when I really wasn’t sure if I could. I’ve tried to put everything I've been feeling into it, all the pain, the rage, the grief, even the unexpected moments of beauty and belief.”
You can catch Saint Agnes on their UK tour later this year in October. Whatever comes next from this band is sure to be as amazing as ‘Bloodsuckers’ is.
Words by Bethany Ellis
