There’s one thing deeply satisfying about rediscovering one thing you’d utterly forgotten you owned, like discovering a $20 invoice in final winter’s coat pocket or realizing that embarrassing MySpace publish from 2006 really contained some first rate poetry. For Above & Past‘s Paavo Siljamäki, that second got here when bandmate Tony McGuinness breathed new life right into a forgotten instrumental demo that had been gathering digital mud for practically a decade.
“Start A Fire,” the newest single from Above & Past’s upcoming album Greater Than All Of Us, started as what Siljamäki calls a “deep instrumental cut” from his private archives. McGuinness says he had an epiphany someday that the music could be good for a forgotten lyric he’d written in a pocket book some years in the past: “There’s enough of you in me to start a fire.”
The tune lastly clicked throughout a visit to the scenic Gorge Amphitheatre, the place its verses got here collectively and fashioned what “ended up being one of our favorites,” McGuinness stated. The long-lasting dance music trio then reunited with the ever-reliable Richard Bedford, the voice behind numerous their most prized tracks, like “Sun & Moon” and “Thing Called Love.”
Bedford’s vocals are equal components ache and ecstasy, delivering McGuinness’ lyrical anchor with the sort of romantic sincerity you’d anticipate from such a timeless collaborative pact. And with Above & Past’s heady home manufacturing on the bedrock, the monitor is energetic however simply sentimental sufficient to stare out of a rideshare window such as you’re in a breakup montage.
You possibly can hearken to “Start a Fire” under and discover the brand new single on streaming platforms right here. Above & Past’s first album in seven years, Greater Than All Of Us, is scheduled to launch July 18th through their very own Anjunabeats label.
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