Soaring High

Pearce wrote it. It was the band's first single, self-released in January 1993 on FSA (Heartbeat Productions) with "Standing Stone" on the B-side, and the first homemade copies included a booklet with text about digital brain death. The first song was recorded on Rachel Brook's brother's four-track, with "Instrumental Wish" the second; Pearce described the cassette four-track as having a slight sonic character of its own. Fact's guide describes simple chord changes and gritty four-track saturation, compares the production to New Zealand's Xpressway label, and hears guitar lines like a low-rent Bevis Frond; it arrived just after the shoegaze bubble burst. We found no statement of the lyric's meaning, no chart, video, covers or samples.