New York, NY (Top40 Charts) On Fast We Fall, Swan, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Drew Patrizi delivers a record where urgent, crackling energy contrasts a pervasive sense of world-weariness (who isn't a bit frayed in 2022?). This disparity is echoed by post-punk angularity juxtaposed against lush modular-synth saturation. While this is not a concept record, the connective tissue amongst the songs questions the narratives we tell ourselves; both in personal relationships and as Americans. It asks how we cope with the "fall from grace" reality when those narratives crumble, without providing an easy solution. Timely, indeed. All of this is greatly captured on his new single "We Got Something" we are pleased to premiere today!
About the song, he comments:
"I think of this song as a relationship coming-of-age story - not in terms of young love maturing - rather when two people's lives are deeply intertwined but at a crossroads, and at that moment they must decide - are they going to grow together or are they going to grow apart? That's a tenuous moment in any relationship, when you're on the precipice, when something big and dramatic is about to happen. Clearly here there's a case being made that this is a golden opportunity and there's something super special worth not only saving, but celebrating.
It's always a mystery to me where a song "comes from," but when listening back to this song I hear a sense of hope, I hear a pitch for redemption, and I hear a longing for a return to what made the relationship so intoxicating in the first place. It's trying to reach back to the early moments of connection, when things were carefree, to spark something new, like when you would both scream out the lyrics when your favorite song came on the radio, I think we can all relate to that. Tonally to me the song feels like it's set at the end of summer, it's the golden hour, there's a mixture of warmth and nostalgia and melancholy all swirling together, and you're just trying to hang on and soak in every last moment.
There's a lyric that says "the summer nights have just begun/the longest days are yet to come," which to me sets up the dichotomy of the narrative unfolding, are the "longest days" going to be the "good" long days, the glorious stretched out kind when it feels like summer will never end, or are the "longest days" going to feel like purgatory, full of heartbreak? I'm holding out that things worked out, I like to think optimistically that the opportunity wasn't missed.
On this track I was fortune to reunite with my friend and engineer/mixer/drummer
Danny Reisch of Good Danny's in Lockhart, TX. "We Got Something" was the first of four songs on the new album we collaborated on together and
Danny helped me realize the vision by playing drums and adding all sorts of cool production texture and tricks to bring it to life. And he made the mix rich and dynamic and exciting like he always does - that's textbook Danny.
There is a production moment in the first chorus, when the chorus repeats and the song just opens up and explodes, at that moment the song kind of self-actualizes I think, let's call it musical self-actualization, that's the only way I can think to describe it - it's probably my favorite moment of the entire album.
Danny and I couldn't stop talking about it. Sometimes you just know when you get something right."
