“Dead Wrong” details a unique but all too common story of an unequal and toxic relationship. I love this song because it plays into the themes of the overarching project. The song drives home the feeling of wishing you never met someone or that you would’ve just stayed in that night. Pete and I actually started this song in winter of 2018 after a wild night out in NYC. I showed him the song on a rooftop bar and he immediately loved it and wrote the whole song in the cab ride home. We were anxious to release it because we thought that people wouldn’t get it, we put it on the back-burner then the pandemic happened. As I was putting this project “Homebody” together I stumbled on this song again and it was a perfect fit, especially since this sound is more popular than ever.

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Hallyx wrote the song while she was 100% feeling every word of it. “The feeling of waiting”: waiting for being truly and deeply loved by someone, waiting for being deeply accepted by someone. She was into a hard relationship, and she was feeling so much pain. She was just so disappointed and she started hitting the piano and screaming something so close to what she was feeling… then she started writing the lyrics, and sometimes she was also making fun of the situation, because the pain sometimes can be absurd, tremendously absurd, and you feel like that you are not moving, like in “Waiting for Godot”(Beckett).
Hallyx wrote this song, because she needed a sort of distraction from pain. Falling underground and not understanding a thing because someone is feeding our soul with negative and toxic energies, is not right. Nobody deserve that. The song is a pure love cry, and Hallyx hopes that can be a way out for who’s suffering. Nina Simone said: “You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served”.

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This song was one of the few songs I made during the pandemic, it took me months on end to finish it because I just couldn’t muster the energy to be creative when it felt like my work was crumbling. This is reflected in the lyrics which document my mental state at the time and I think most people can relate to the song in a positive way. I watched myself in real time transform from being active and outside to being restricted to my home and how that changed me. Although the lyrics are heavy the instrumentation is intentionally energetic to communicate the paradox of my current situation. Although I was forced to be a homebody these past few years, I have really been able to connect with myself on a deeper level, and that deserves to be celebrated.

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“This whole song is the musical story of my wife Ashley and I’s relationship (‘Take me back to the garden where my heart wasn’t guarded and we whispered under the stars’). We met my freshman year of college and started dating shortly after I suffered a traumatic brain injury. Not many couples experience the hardships of health issues so early in their lives, but it’s something that I am grateful for because it gave us a glimpse of what it means to serve in sickness and in health. The first few years of our relationship were filled with periods of intense growing and stretching, a great deal of which was me learning to put away selfishness and fiery ego for the sake of serving and loving Ashley (“This is my time to grow, so give me a chance to see the fire inside my lungs in the love in the air we breathe”).

We got married after 3 years of dating and honeymooned in Seattle (‘Let’s go back to Seattle where love was like a battle, charging hard on this saddle of life.’). Along the theme of seeds, I’m reminded of the stinging bull nettle seed pod, which is coated in hairs that release a stinging toxin when touched. I had a professor in college who used this as an example of living boldly; when firmly crushed in your palm, the pod doesn’t sting you. (‘I want to live life unsettled, clinging firm to the nettle when the winds try to deepen divides’). I want to live and love boldly, never settling for complacency. This whole song is my reminder to always seek to grow deeper into love.” – Jacob Betts (Lead Vocals)

These two songs are inspired by romances lived by the writer, Dimitri von Büren. They’re guided by an invitation to escape and dream.

As I wrote the songs for my album, I found myself pouring all of my emotions and feelings for this person I had met into them. Each track was a reflection of the whirlwind romance that had taken me by surprise. The lyrics were honest, capturing the essence of how it felt to fall head over heels for someone so unexpectedly, although not based on the actual events ; the message of my album was clear – love can be found in the most unexpected places. It’s not always in the places we think to look, but sometimes it’s waiting for us just around the corner.

I was inspired by pop singers from the fifties both for the vocal side of the song and for the melody, the song has a vintage flavor. The message that I wanted to convey is an almost trivial one, yet so difficult to put into practice. You are complete. You don’t need sweet dreams to run away from yourself, because they’ll be intoxicating at the beginning, but then they will hurt you. Love is everywhere, you don’t have to twist yourself in shapes or deny your needs to get it, the right people will accept you for who you are. I wanted to give to the song this feeling of hope, in contrast with the cynicism of lyrics like Sweet Dreams (are made of this). A window open to the possibility of healing.

Death is inevitable part of the adventure. It is a choice to believe that among the loss it holds keys to freedom and journeys yet to discover.

The song is an outline of the hot, fiery feeling of being stolen from. Outlining the personal feeling of someone — or something — ripping a person off both with material gain, but also the vindictive nature of take, take, take from so many facets of society nowadays.

Questa canzone nasce per via di un amore non corrisposto, un amore che viene sfruttato dall’altra persona per i propri fini, senza pensare che abbiamo tutti dei sentimenti.
Molti ci sono passati ma pochi hanno il coraggio di ammetterlo, l’obiettivo è quello di non renderlo un motivo di vergogna ma un modo per crescere e migliorarsi.

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Un viaggio dentro me stesso alla ricerca di ciò che mi ha portato a fare musica. Un tributo verso le mie sonorità preferite. Ho voluto creare delle canzoni che potessero uscire da Top of the pops di 20 anni fa ma che avessere uno stile comunque moderno e in parte futuristico. La ricerca maniacale del dettaglio è stata curata sia nella parte musicale, che in quella visiva e stilistica.

“b proud” is a self aware, deeply personal track exploring themes of helplessness and inadequacy, woven through a twinkly tapped electric guitar melodies layered over scattery percussion and thumping, rumbly 808s.

Going back to the same love regardless of knowing the negative income.

When I wrote this song I was picturing the scene , two people in a relationship, one person that was willing to do and give anything to the other, and the other one that wouldn’t do as much. Basically, they keep going on in circles of her constantly trying to prove that she was down for him, and she was willing to ‘Show him off’ at any point in time, but to him she was not doing enough, and all her efforts were just a waste, so he left.

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Aprile è un brano catartico per me, da molto meditavo di farne una versione mia. Ho cercato di renderla più intima e malinconica rinunciando alla rabbia che c’è nell’originale in favore di una sonorità più sommessa, con un estetica che sa di passato

The song was inspired by a feelings of deep Melancholia, depressions in a post break up world. Things aren’t working out the way you’d like them to be. You wish things could be different. You try to move on but yet you’re being kept prisoner by the need for someone who no longer wishes you.

Cecilia Lara meets three boys during her Erasmus in Aix-en-Provence. This experience was the greatest feeling of freedom and the four kids agreed that they felt as if they were in Neverland, just like Peter Pan, never growing. Lying in the grass, playing guitar and shouting in the forest, the kids would never grow up. Aix and the music they wrote could make time stop forever.

Chiunque nella sua vita incontrerà persone che si riveleranno false, l’importante è non perdere mai se stessi. questo è il messaggio che Nolan vuole trasmettere attraverso questo brano, la voglia di farcela si trasforma come ninfa vitale, fiamma che mai si spegnerà

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