Fresh off the heels of the Broadside Hacks label roster tour, London-via-Michigan songwriter Spitzer Space Telescope (Dan MacDonald) has unveiled the video for his striking new single, ‘Veritas’. Out today (18th November), the track sets the stage for the release of his anticipated EP, Spitzer Space Telescope III, due this Friday.
Marking his first major release since taking full-time residence in London, MacDonald continues his exploration of direct, Clancy Brothers-inspired folk. The banjo-picked ballad weaves a complex narrative, using the historical persecution of Galileo as an allegory for the rise of anti-science rhetoric during the global pandemic.
MacDonald explains the song’s gravity: “This song was written about the pandemic. In America we saw exhausted front-line doctors and nurses being spit on and harassed by the very people they were obligated to help, it was an alarming regression that I thought we left back in the Middle Ages, but clearly we didn’t. I wanted to use the story of Galileo, the iconic rebel of science, to draw a direct parallel to the same ignorance and anti-science confusion we saw in 2020.”
Coinciding with the digital EP launch, fans can purchase the Spitzer Space Telescope Sampler—a vinyl-only compilation of his EP trilogy—exclusively at live shows and via Bandcamp: https://spitzerspacetelescope2.bandcamp.com
Dates
21 NOV // London, Round Chapel (supporting Nora Brown, with Stephanie Coleman)