UK indie songwriter duo Flyte returns with “I’m Not There,” a soberingly sincere exploration of private trauma and self-acceptance.
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In apocalyptic instances like these, typically all we wish is to really feel emotionally cradled and secure.
Flyte, the London-based indie songwriter duo comprised of Will Taylor and Nick Hill, supply us that secure area with their first launch since their critically acclaimed self-titled third album in 2023. Gearing for an upcoming UK tour, Taylor and Hill are returning with the only “I’m Not There” (launched February 14, 2025), a soberingly sincere exploration of private trauma and self-love.
Combining their forces with BRIT Award Successful producer Ethan Johns (identified for his works with Paul McCartney, Ray Lamontagne, Laura Marling), the duo have created an intimate piece of music with an natural, home made feeling.
Emotional and bare in its reality, “I’m Not There” speaks aloud the ideas of somebody struggling to remain current in a relationship.
“Though common remedy and the ever-enlightening observe of songwriting has helped me immensely over time, an absence of self-love, self-forgiveness, and the luggage of household trauma nonetheless hangs round – typically closely,” Taylor shares. “This tune was written below a very dense cloud, with a wet mind. I used to be draining my unconscious, not current within the slightest.”
‘Trigger how can I let you know, I’m nowhere?
I’m breathless, I’m sizzling air
If it’s heavy, I can maintain it
Possibly an excessive amount of, once you discover
I’m not there
I’m not there
– “I’m Not There,” Flyte
Will Taylor and Nick Hill’s voices mix collectively in excellent concord, discovering a mushy place to land atop breezy drums, folky guitar strums, and feathery piano flutters. The tune has an vitality adjoining to 1 you’d discover in Nick Drake’s discography – simple on the ears and profoundly poetic.
“It’s a totally dwell efficiency, lower proper at the beginning of the album recording session,” Taylor provides.
“We performed it as soon as and as soon as solely, and that’s all of the listeners hear bar a single piano added later. Nick, Ethan, and I haven’t performed as this trio earlier than and you’ll hear us introducing ourselves to one another, figuring the entire thing out as we performed. Ethan, in addition to being a sensational producer/engineer is an skilled, emotionally clever drummer, which supplied a security web that allowed us to step blindly into the efficiency with no preparation. It taught us that there, in that dangerous place, is the place the reality is most simply coaxed out of us.”
Tenderly relating the domino results of private trauma, “I’m Not There” is a tune so becoming for these melancholic instances, reminding us to not run from our emotions, however to confront them and to be sincere about them with ourselves and family members.
There’s power in wanting the reality sq. within the face. In doing so, we’re in a position to see the entire image of who we’re in HD, flaws and all. Solely then, once we can see the entire image of ourselves, can we discover true self-acceptance and transfer in the direction of the trail of therapeutic.
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