A single fingerpicking pattern anchors a haunting song built around tension and space. The refrain emphasizes slow progress and the absence of quick solutions. The narrative inspiration comes from a road journey across the US featuring random encounters and an absurd obligation to repay a poker debt by constructing a wall for two eccentric millionaires. Recording involved demos at an apartment and later guitar, vocals, and percussion at a Barcelona studio. The sound slowly unfolds through layered percussion and guitar toward a cinematic crescendo. The work draws on folk roots with jazz, rock soul, and spoken word influences, while focusing on themes of love, loss, restlessness, and searching for meaning in ordinary life.
"“The song fell out of me almost immediately after finishing The Music of Chance. It's a novel which I really loved,” he says. “It's a tale of travelling across the US, random encounters, and the absurdity of having to repay a poker debt by building a wall for two eccentric millionaires called Flower and Stone. It felt like something out of Beckett or Camus.”"
"“He instantly said he'd love to produce it,” Davy says. “We started doing demos in his apartment before eventually going to record guitar, vocals, and percussion at Angel Sound Studio in Barcelona.”"
"“We tried to keep a sense of tension and space in the recording, so the song slowly unfolds - as the book does - rather than immediately revealing itself,” Davy explains. A haunting number, with a single fingerpicking pattern, the refrain “This is a slow burn, There is no quick fix”, will be rattling around in your head for quite a while. The song builds and builds, with layers of percussion and guitar, to a cinematic crescendo."
"Rooted in folk, with jazz, rock soul and spoken word influences, the story is everything in Lyons' work as he moves through the big timeless themes of love, loss and restlessness, often searching for meaning in the ordinary."
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