coming soon
a song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How delighted I am to say that I’m releasing some music this month! Hoo wee!
Yes, ya heard it here first. Because you, dear reader, are the priority when it comes to these things.
I wrote this song about three years ago and recorded it on my bedroom floor, one take, one microphone. It sat in my demo folder for a long time but I thought it was time to just… let it go, and see if it flies. Some of you already know and love this song and are waiting to have it in your hands. Thanks for being so patient.
I remember playing this song at a gig once and this woman came up to me afterwards and said how it made her cry. Even though recently I’ve tried to take a step away from writing tear-inducing music, I still feel proud of that moment. I like making people feel things!
Pre-save ‘Nothing Feels Like Home’ here. This means it’ll turn up in your Spotify when it comes out.
When I first wrote this song it was about having left a relationship and questioning whether I’d done the right thing, cause I felt lonely (in my bonelies). But then when I would perform it in 2020 and after, it also felt like a different kind of song, one about feeling adrift and lonely after isolation and a global pandemic.
A collaborator of mine told me to hold on to this song because it was amazing and when I finally released it, it would SMASH the WORLD with it’s bRILLIANCE (this quote is not verbatim). So I held on to it, and held on to it, and held on some more. Unfortunately, this holding on did bring about an opportunity to smash the world with brilliance but instead just made sure no-one could listen to the song. So! I am releasing it in its demo form, just pure and raw and simple, and moving on to the next thing.
But I hope you enjoy it, I really do.
things i liked
✶ I haven’t been listening to much music, I feel like every time I try to think of recommendations for you all I just say “HEY HAVE YOU LISTENED TO RICHARD SHINDELL YET?” which is valid because you all should.
Anyway. This is not a Richard Shindell fanblog. While we’re here though, please go listen to this other Richard:
ENOUGH RICHARDS. This is Richard Chaos. Please now go listen to Placebo because I had a Placebo moment today and Placebo are great:
✶ The Stranger Things house is up for sale and is genuinely beautiful.
✶ Great advice for being more creative. I love reading and watching different things and then seeing how they all interact with each other in my brain to make new ideas:
✶ I’m seeing the Mountain Goats next week and I AM EXCITED BECAUSE I LOVE JOHN DARNIELLE AND HIS BRAIN. My first foray into TMG was because a guy I had a huge crush on texted me the entire first verse to ‘No Children’ which was either a cute move or a threat. I told John Darnielle this when I met him at a gig in Glasgow, and he seemed pleased by it, but I was instantly upstaged by my sister telling him that she just the tree from The Sunset Tree album cover singing all the songs instead of him. He laughed at that.
Here’s one of my favourite Mountain Goats songs. I may have shared this before. I do not care.
That’s yer lot!!!!!
I hope you all have a good week and don’t forget to pre-save my single on Spotify so you know the moment it comes out!
Happy Thursday and here’s your prize, should you be brave enough to click the heart.
Olivia 🎷