Japanese/Irish band Clarity are back! Bringing their signature new-core sound in an epic collaboration with Yosh Morita (Survive Said The Prophet). The new single ‘Space x Time’ not only features Morita vocally, but it is also produced by him at The Hideout Studios. Mix and mastered by Chris Kelly (Babymetal, Hillhaven, Ice Nine Kills), this anthemic post-hardcore track is the bands seventh single, giving us another dimension in the bands sound.

We caught up with Clarity frontman Andy to get a little behind the scenes behind the collaboration.

“Yosh has a much closer eye on the Tokyo music scene than I think a lot of people realise. He reached out to me to get a drink together early last year and I learned that he had been watching Clarity for quite a while – and also knew the other bands on the scene very well. He seemed to like what we were doing, and felt that we could use a little help finding “the spotlight” as he put it once. So we kinda kept in touch after that and it culminated in him inviting us to play the opening night of their Hold the Tour in Utsunomiya. Once that was locked in, Yosh came to us with the idea to work on a track together,” Andy explains.

“We had actually been working on an E.P (which we hope to release a little later this year) and had a song that we felt would be a good fit for the collab. It was in the latter demo stages and we thought we were pretty happy with it, until Yosh asked if he could play with it and basically showed us what it should have been all along. That became ‘Space x Time’. Yosh‘s production took it to a level we could never have even imagined ourselves. He’s got a lot of great things going on at The Hideout [Studios] right now and it’s pretty wild to me to think that we get to be a small part of it.” 

As for what the inspiration behind the track was, Andy gave us a full breakdown.

“I’m obsessed with the idea of memories and how life events get reframed as you get older. Like, occasionally I’ll look back on something in my life which – at the time – seemed totally mundane and unimportant, but the memory will feel significant for some reason or another. I find that really sad. The idea that you can be IN a moment that you’ll look back on later in life but have no idea at that time, it makes me feel like I’m a passenger in my own life, just getting taken along. So what’s the answer to that? Well, it seems like you just have to get better at being in the now. And when I started thinking about it like that, it kind of felt like the whole idea of a timeline seems like a very silly way to think about life. Your past brought you to the present, and whatever you do now is going to affect your future, so these things are all intertwined in a way that is kind of impossible to appreciate, but maybe the key to happiness in this life is in trying to appreciate them anyway. Don’t look back at what you’ve done – accept where it’s brought you. Don’t look forward – that doesn’t exist yet. Whether the past was good or bad, whether there’s hope in the future or not, none of it matters if you don’t take the time to live in the now.”

“So with all that said, ‘Space x Time’ became a song about refusing to let the past define you, and refusing to let the future scare you – and instead accepting all of what’s been, all of the possibility of what could be, and accepting the responsibility of living in the moment. I believe that by truly appreciating where we’re at, we can make sense of where we’ve been, and make clear the road to where we need to be. ‘Space x Time’ is about that.”

‘Space x Time’ feat. Yosh is out now across all streaming platforms.
Listen to it here.