On 18th March, Galway’s The Clockworks will return with their first new music of 2022, Endgame. The track is cut from what will be the band’s debut collection of songs, an eponymously-titled EP, which will be released on the 1st April, via It’s Creation Baby. Loosely inspired by the Samuel Beckett play of the same name, Endgame is as literary as it is biting literal; it’s a song that grapples with the paranoia of losing your edge as the crushing cogs of time roll-on. As self-effacing as it is cannily self-aware, the song’s complex character-driven narrative delivers a state of the nation address from the shoes of joe public, while providing opportunity for a steely-eyed stare into the mirror. “The idea for the lyrics was to have this character who’...