Whether or not you’re a ‘morning’ particular person or an evening owl usually on the opposite aspect of ‘midnight,’ Nick Leng has two new songs excellent for you – it doesn't matter what the hour.
Walt Whitman wrote, “I'm giant, I comprise multitudes” whereas a blade of grass, however the quote applies to anybody who goes by twenty-four hours of life on this earth. Enter Nick Leng, like a contemporary Sphinx of Thebes, asking if the one who wakes up within the morning is similar once they go to mattress at evening? In his two new songs – “Morning / Midnight” and “My Thoughts is a Mess within the Morning,” Nick exhibits his personal multitudes. “My Thoughts…” is a piano-driven ballad of self-reflection, all of the “troubled ideas” that include the daybreak’s first gentle. It’s additionally a shining instance of the self-love wrestle that anybody with a messy thoughts offers with, of discovering “forgiveness” and permitting themselves to be worthy of affection.
Whereas “My Thoughts…” is perhaps a heat embrace of oneself, flaws and all, “Morning / Midnight” shines like a streetlight within the late hours. It’s cool. It slinks. It saunters. It’s the hum of confidence, an intoxicated grin. It’s the all-nighter with pals, of strolling in direction of your entrance door simply because the solar is developing.
“I’ve all the time had bother writing quotes that summarize songs,” Nick shares with HollywoodLife. “It feels just like the phrases can put songs in bins, and probably snuff out any private interpretation a listener might need. In an analogous approach, once I was completed with ‘My Thoughts is a Mess within the Morning,’ and was fascinated with releasing it as a single, it actually excited me to pair it with ‘Morning / Midnight.’ They’re equally necessary to me, and, one may say, fairly completely different. collectively, I felt like they painted a greater image of what I’m attempting to say.”
Although the often-maligned quote states that “writing about music is like dancing about structure,” Nick does his finest to share with HollywoodLife how these two songs got here to be. “‘My Thoughts is a Mess within the Morning’ was written whereas I used to be residing in Topanga in a trailer park which, subsequently — and arguably hilariously — grew to become rat infested, prompting a hasty departure,” he says. “‘Morning / Midnight’ was began there as nicely one late evening once I was chopping up a classical piano improvisational piece I had recorded, on a sampler.”
“There’s a video on my Instagram of me taking part in the melodica within the intro within the morning and the solar peeked by that ended up within the ultimate model,” continues Leng. “I had thought-about dividing that intro, with the chopped piano and the ‘second half’ when the beat is available in, into two songs, however the journey of the intro, and duality and sensation of when the bass and kick is available in, had an actual story to it that it cemented the conviction that it’s one concept.”
Nick will share these tales and concepts when he joins LP – somebody of equal coolness and smoothness – on tour this spring. It’s the primary likelihood for a lot of to see Nick play his 2020 album, LEMONS, in particular person, although he did launch LEMONS – Stay From Drive In OC final fall. Nevertheless, nothing can substitute the true factor, so prepare to remain out late when Nick and LP come to your city.
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