Premiere: Daring Forbes Shares New Single “Arroyo Seco”
Take heed to the Monitor Under
Jun 10, 2025
Pictures by Julia Discenza
New York Metropolis and Cambridge-based indie people trio Daring Forbes are again this yr with a pair of latest singles, following after their 2018 full-length debut album, Excessive Time. After an prolonged hiatus, the band shared “Make Away,” which expanded upon the earnest and plaintive sheen of their debut, reintroducing the band with swelling chamber people preparations, swooning vocal harmonies, and a sweltering alt-country edge. In the present day, the band are sharing one other new observe, “Arroyo Seco,” premiering with Underneath the Radar.
“Arroyo Seco” pares again the orchestral expanse of the band’s final single, as a substitute sauntering by dusty and psychedelic people detours. The band’s verdant string preparations have been stripped away till delicate guitar strains, lonesome fiddle cries, and creaking atmospherics are all that’s left. The band lets their instrumentation echo across the unfavorable area, conjuring a moonlit desert waltz within the shadowy haze. In the meantime, their lyrics equally carry a foreboding dramatic undercurrent: “And I don’t know the place you come from / The creek is ready for the flood / No, I don’t know the place you come from / Rivers of water and ruby blood.”
The band says of the observe, “‘Arroyo Seco’ is a meditation on cosmic justice, written over the course of a number of walks within the Brentwood neighborhood of Austin, TX, in the course of the excessive level of the Covid pandemic. The lyrics have been impressed by the imagery from central Texas’s stunning dry creeks, Exodus, and suburban residing rooms, echoing within the creaking, hovering, aching preparations for the acoustic and electrical guitars, fiddle, and bass.”
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