Скачать или смотреть Alf Whitby - Dampen the Fire

‘Dampen the Fire’ is Alf Whitby’s first single since the release of his 2020 debut album, ‘Sistine Dreams’. The song hearkens back to time spent huddled around a fire with family, exploring the role of the matriarch grandmother at the center of the experience. The core of piano and vocal is eventually embellished by stomping drums and swirling guitars that carry the song to an emotive climax, where Whitby declares his love for his grandmother, and implores the family to continue life in a similar vein after her passing.

In his own words...

“I wrote this song at Dublin airport, after visiting my grandma for what might have been the last time. That feeling was pretty awful; also pretty strange. I didn’t know how to feel, but I wanted to write.
The song reflects her role in the family - the fire around which we gathered, the common experience we shared. I was definitely scared of how things would be after her death, whether it would give the family less cause to be together. The song became a rallying call to remembrance, to reflection, to refuelling and to the stoking of a fire that needn’t go out.”