Starcrawler returned in October with the new single, "Learn to Say Goodbye," and the accompanying gritty music video.
The band tells Q104.3 New York's Out of the Box with Jonathan Clarke in a new interview that the song attempts to look at breakups through multiple lenses.
"We're kind of leaving it up to the listener," singer Arrow de Wilde says of an explicit meaning in the track. "It wasn't necessarily based on an event that took place. It was more, we just started writing the song. I just liked the idea ... that you go through stages of emotion when [a falling out happens], even if you're like, 'Yeah, eff this person,' or whatever."
She continued: 'But even if that's the case, I feel like there's a moment of like a selfish kind of, 'I'm gonna stick it out. No one can tell me who I should hang out with, what I should do. I feel like that is something that people could probably relate to."
The single was recorded at the Foo Fighters' famed Studio 606 in Los Angeles.
"We got to use their drum kits, their amps, so it was just a really incredible experience," recalls guitarist Henri Cash. "The engineer ... Oliver [Roman], we met recording with Perry Farrell and Taylor Hawkins, so it was a really cool full circle moment when he invited us in to come record there."
Watch the full interview via the player above!
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Watch the music video for Starcrawler's "Learn to Say Goodbye" here;