The Leaving Release Second Single, “Pray”

Industrial electronic rock band The Leaving release their second single, “Pray,” available to stream and download from Avenue A Records / Futures ✦.

The Leaving is a new band formed by Martin Doherty and Jonny Scott, longtime friends, collaborators and LA-based expats of the Glaswegian music scene as multi-instrumentalists, songwriters and producers with CHVRCHES, The Twilight Sad, Aerogramme, Mogwai and Idlewild, amongst others.

Says Doherty:

“‘Pray’ is rooted in a conversation about what is left when someone is gone. To be a source of comfort for a person you care about deeply in their time of greatest need, even though you do not feel qualified or capable. It’s about becoming stronger in remembrance of them, and that which was the source of your deepest sadness, becoming your greatest strength.”

Born from a period of deep personal upheaval and creative rediscovery, The Leaving present an unfiltered body of music forged in grief, rebuilt through friendship, and electrified by an instinctive alchemy that comes from a decades-long kinship and connection. “Pray” follows the band’s debut single, “Saved,” which was released last month and described as a “futuristic anthem” by Stereogum.

The Leaving “Pray” single artwork