Taste Test: The High Divers are ‘Still Kickin’ after near-death accident
The rock band remember their near-death experience with a fire-soaked new rallying cry.
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When you scamper across the edge of this world and the next, most often unwillingly, you can see your life flashing before your eyes. That near-death haunting space forms a tougher resilience and perspective on grasping every moment by its proverbial horns. Rising out of the Charleston, South Carolina music scene, biting Americana-rock quartet The High Divers step out of the wreckage of what could have been a fatal and utterly tragic wasteland, the glass crunching and snapping under their feet as they made their way to safety. The swirling electricity of “Still Kickin'” yanks the listener right in the middle of the flying rubble, depicting the scene as it unraveled in choking blurs. “It happened so fast / Do you understand how lucky you are to be sitting here?” frontman Luke Mitchell gasps for breath as he relives that moment like a homemade family video over and over and over again. The images will surely grow fainter and more distant with time, but right now, he shares the graphic imagery to call us to live each day as it is our last. And we most certainly will.
“Still Kickin'” anchors the band’s new EP, Ride with You, out later this year.
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