Listen by Project Blackbird published on 2024-12-09T23:33:50Z A lilting guitar motif, hip-hop inspired rhythm section, and sultry, Sprechgesang vocals drive this song to the lakeside with the top down. “Listen” offers unexpected optimism through the introspection, and warm rays of sonic sunshine for dark and uncertain times. Music: Roberts / Read / Project Blackbird Lyrics: Nagel ALAN ROBERTS – electric guitar / EDDIE DUBLIN – drums / JAMIE VARLEY – backing vocals, keyboards / JON READ – backing vocals, double bass, percussion / MING NAGEL – vocals Recorded at Zephyr Studios (Leicester, UK) and Four Winds (Burrough on the Hill, UK). Engineered by Dave Tidmarsh and Jon Read. Produced and mixed by Dave Tidmarsh, Jon Read, and Project Blackbird. Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio (New York, NY, USA). Single "cover" art is a detail taken from True Names by Chloë Bates, designed by Lydia Wood. Lyrics: sun and shadow make a double I’m the shadow, you’re the sun - it’s a conversation dance back when we stumble skip a beat, make our peace, find a double in the one sun’s a hand on a wet dress a warm chill shiver taking wing upon my spine what do you feel when you undress? who decides when we’re out of time? listen we’re falling into clouds of gold drowning deep in sky’s the limit hope water dapples in the sunlight like a herd of Appaloosa running on the lake time: a knot getting untied ripple loose – here’s a different truth, another shape sun and shadow make a double beyond two, sway becomes a rhapsody in new I close my eyes to the bright blue in the strobe behind my eyes, it’s a solo show, all I see is you listen we’re falling into clouds of gold drowning deep in sky’s the limit hope listen we’re falling through the sun into the gold drowning wherever there is music there is hope listen we’re falling through it all to the unknown drowning wherever there is music there is hope Genre alternative groove
