As many readers to my once famous, frequently blogging blog know I like to haunt the Submithub Hot or Not charts because it’s a veritable mine of great new music and every now and again a song comes along so good it makes you halt what you’re doing and pay close attention.

Rabbit Hole by Lyonhart is one of those occasions:

Stylistically I’m reminded of Chris Isaak, Manchester band TSDP (AKA Mamucium) with shades of obscure Irish band The Adventures:

I sense there are lots more comparisons to make but these are futile and I urge you to enjoy Rabbit Hole on its own merits, especially the deliriously hypnotic outro that lifts this track into other worlds entirely.

Sena from the band tells me the song is all about self reflection and how we’re seen from the eyes of others, or as they put it:

An introspective mediation on being accepted despite all your flaws. An explanation about the traumas that we all carry through our lives, and how it colours our individual view of the world. “We are the centre of our own universe” as the saying goes, so it’s easy to feel misunderstood, despite the fact that we’re all misunderstood in some fundamental way.

Which I think is a lovely way at looking at things. I’m enjoying falling down this rabbit hole. You’re next.