Hasten Mercy Drops Debut Single "These Things"

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Everybody knows someone who has slipped away. Maybe it's a romantic liaison that went sour, a missed connection or great could-have-been, or a friendship in which the partners have drifted apart. And it's always tempting to think that those estrangements could be repaired - if you could overcome your shyness and figure out the right thing to say. Michael S. Baker knows all about it.
"These Things," his debut single as Hasten Mercy, is a letter-perfect expression of the longing, desire, ambivalence, and regret that accompanies the end of a relationship, or even the lonely twilight of a relationship that never was.
"These Things" is a textural showcase: there's a bass synthesizer throb, a high, twinkly piano, and midrange tones that morph and twist in time with the narrator's aspirations and insecurities.