Love You Always is out now!
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Meanjin/Brisbane-based singer-songwriter Rosa Mack has shared her new single, Love You Always. To celebrate the release, the tracks songwriter and Mack's guitarist, James Pryce Davies, has shared with MILKY five songs that inspired him during the writing process.
Speaking of recording the song, Mack shares: "It’s a vulnerable practice to gift your musical ideas to your bandmates. However exposing that may feel - I’ve found the process of granting one's artistic expression to another is a powerful tool in understanding and relating to someone’s insight and perspective. It’s an honour to translate James’ work with my voice and offer my own authentic interpretation to audiences. I feel these words as much as I would my own, and I think that dynamic of trust can create something profoundly honest and soulful to share."
Everyone has their go to artists that inspire them, and the songwriter alongside Rosa Mack is no different. Below is a mix tape of the artists that James Pryce Davies had on repeat while writing their new single: ‘Love You Always.’
FOR YOU - KADHJA BONET
This song is proof that Spotify’s recommendations really do work. It wouldn’t sound out of place on the soundtrack of the movie Drive with Ryan Gosling. I get serious Miami Vice vibes from this tune. Speaking of Spotify- go and check out Kadhja’s bio on her Spotify profile. Thank me later. I love the way her voice sounds. Our Producer, Lachlan Symons, had a big emphasis on the vocal layering- so I feel we got some of that feeling on Love you Always.
A.L.I.S.O.N - SPACE ECHO
The Algorithm, blessings be upon it, sent me a channel on Youtube called Asthenic – which collates playlists of the latest and greatest in Synthwave, and then puts it to futuristic animations of Lamborghini flying through canyons on the moon! I had this on heavy rotation when the opening riff of Love You Always was first written and can say for sure that this was influencing me a great deal. Perfect music for your next Neo-Noir search when you absolutely need to find out whether you’re a replicant or not. Also good for doing emails.
WALKING ON THE MOON - THE POLICE
This song brings me back to my first trip to Melbourne. I had ended up on Brunswick Street looking for a place to crash and met someone willing to take me in. Later, as I drifted off into the night on a couch in Fitzroy; the Best of The Police playing in the background, I can clearly remember hearing Sting sing the opening line: ‘giant steps are what you take, walking on the moon. I hope my legs don’t break, walking on the moon’. I love Andy Summers guitars, which is why his signature pedal was used on the guitars in Love You Always.
TANGERINE DREAM - LOVE ON A REAL TRAIN
Few can transport you to riding the subway on a rainy night in Tokyo quite like Tangerine Dream. For a stretch there I was really loving instrumental Synth music with distinctively flavour of the 1980’s. I Love how the song has this shimmer of anticipation and drama; as though you and you alone must uncover some deep truth hidden on the streets at 3am in some desolate city of someone’s fading memory.
SLEIGHT OF HAND - PEARL JAM
With all the Vedder-ness turned down to just the right setting, Sleight of Hand is a real deep cut perfect for anyone sceptical of the band's famously dad rock vibes. The themes of being lost and hoping for rescue speak directly to what Love You Always is about. Give it a spin next time you’re going on a hike. Just make sure you bring the GPS. Or maybe just watch Into The Wild.
Love You Always is out now!
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