You’d be forgiven for thinking that by now, all songwriters must have surely exhausted every conceivable description for love known to mankind. So hats off to Sydney group Step-Panther for blowing that notion out of the water with their latest track, ‘It Came From The Heart’.
The trio’s sophomore album ‘Strange But Nice’ is due for release on 19 September, and strange but nice is an apt way to sum up the lead single.
‘It Came From The Heart’ vibrates with the kind of silvery, jangling guitars that would be at home on Real Estate’s latest record, neatly offset by frontman Steve Bourke’s plaintive slacker vocal.
But it’s in the kooky descriptions of the monster that is love gone wrong, where the song really hits home. The opening line ‘It came from the heart/went straight for the jugular’ indicates that this isn’t just any old heartbreak ballad, and by the time ‘It came from the forest/broke into the kitchen/and I’d kick it out/but these things tend to grow on me’, you get the impression that ‘It Came From The Heart’ might be the nicest anti-love song you’ve heard in while.
