Singer/songwriter Salim Nourallah reminds us that injury is common in his poetic, poignant, and profound new single “Harm,” an achingly intimate different rock track filled with fact, uncooked emotion, and humbling humanity.
Stream: “Harm” – Salim Nourallah
We all include our personal injury.
A few of that will appear extra apparent or overt at occasions, and many people conceal it properly, however in a approach, we’re all ‘broken’ items simply doing our greatest. Name it baggage, name it trauma, name it no matter you need – everybody has one thing, and in his newest single, singer/songwriter Salim Nourallah exposes a fact that’s properly value remembering the following time we really feel alone in our feelings.
Intimate, uncooked, and achingly weak, the emotionally charged “Harm” reminds us that injury is common – a shared human expertise to which we are able to all relate, as a result of we’ve all had it. Nobody escapes this world unscathed or untarnished, and whereas it’s a painful capsule to swallow, it’s additionally one of many stunning, bittersweet information of life that assist make it all of the extra worthwhile.
injury is you
injury is me
injury is enjoyable
injury is affordable
injury is uncooked
injury is nice
injury spares nobody
its vengeance cuts deep
we’re dancing in gradual movement
on a razor’s edge
we’re dancing, so devoted
tumble off the ledge
Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Harm,” a mild upheaval of stressed ideas and interior turmoil wearing Wilco-like different rock garb. Salim Nourallah’s soul-stirring first single of the 12 months is poetic, poignant, and profound; by means of three minutes of accessible, catchy lyrics and comparatively easy melodies and chords, the Dallas, Texas-based singer/songwriter invitations his viewers to replicate on their ‘particular person’ injury, all whereas recognizing, acknowledging, and to a point accepting the truth that, deep down, we’re not all that completely different from each other.
Our injury is, in essence, a unifying drive that may carry us nearer collectively, bridging our divides.
we’re broken as kids
by broken adults
injury is hidden
in bullet proof vaults
injury is intelligent
injury is fast
injury is reckless
injury is slick
An evergreen track with a very highly effective, significant message, “Harm” arrives within the wake of Nourallah’s recently-released singles “Shield Your Peace” (Nov ‘24) and “Telegraph Avenue” (Oct ‘24). Because the artist explains, this newest monitor is years within the making –and the results of collaboration, persistence, and a textbook perfectionist studying when to let go.
“I’ve been ready nearly seven years to launch ‘Harm,’ Nourallah tells Atwood Journal. “It got here in on my birthday in 2018, one week earlier than my mom died. I recorded it with my band in Austin, then dragged it into the Nashville classes with Marty Willson-Piper to re-record it. These classes ended up yielding the A Nuclear Winter file that got here out in 2023. I cherished Billy Harvey’s mixture of ‘Harm,’ however determined it didn’t fairly match on the file, so I shelved it. Two years later, I recorded a very completely different model with Billy. Ridiculous. The ‘new’ model was the one I used to be planning to lastly launch, however I circled again to the unique. It was pretty obvious to me that this was the definitive model, and I ought to FINALLY let it out into the world. It was a protracted and winding street to get right here – making the discharge of ‘Harm’ all of the extra candy for me.”
like a foul anesthetic
administered to you
in the midst of the evening
like a mad, thumping headache
that won’t go away
Whereas the aforementioned A Nuclear Winter represented Nourallah’s ninth studio album in a two-decade span, the artist says he doesn’t contemplate himself to be significantly quick relating to writing and releasing music.
“I’ve acquired a popularity for firing out releases in a prolific method, however I don’t actually see it,” he admits. “I truly really feel like I’ve been fairly gradual to launch new music. Two songs specifically come to thoughts. ‘See You in Marfa’ is an apparent instance. I additionally recorded a number of variations of that one earlier than it was launched as a single in 2022. I’d written it in March of 2015, in order that solely took me seven years! ‘Your Birthday With out You’ was written in August of 2015 and didn’t come out till 2021. I may go on and on. Mainly, I really feel like I’ve been slower than molasses. The songs are at all times there, however getting recordings and mixes that I’m pleased with has usually been a tedious course of. The newest examples are the Salim and the Philistines’ Rescued from Oblivion. That assortment of songs was began final December, and it nonetheless hasn’t been accomplished. Billy Harvey and I additionally completed 26 recordings which can be presently sitting within the waiting-to-be-released queue. My most up-to-date singles, ‘Telegraph Avenue’ and ‘Shield Your Peace,’ got here from that pile of accomplished songs.”
“I’m simply undecided of the present panorama for artists like myself. Releasing albums is pricey and concerned, and it takes a variety of effort and time. In a world the place we’ve devalued music to the purpose through which most individuals anticipate it to be free, it’s arduous for unbiased artists like me to maintain pouring their very own cash into one thing that finally brings little or no again. In order that’s the quandary. Do I embrace the age of streaming and simply launch single after single or do I proceed to place out the occasional album? I haven’t actually determined what to do, so it’s added one more layer to the speed through which I’m releasing new music.”
He might have taken his time to lastly launch “Harm,” however the track feels as recent and true at this time as it will have again in 2018 when it was first written.
Nothing concerning the human expertise has profoundly shifted prior to now seven years to make a track about our common experiences of ache, trauma, and different types of struggling any much less relatable or related – in actual fact, the highest of 2025 feels just like the good time to be enthusiastic about, speaking about, and singing about injury.
injury is ugly
when injury is useless
injury is winter
places a chill in your veins
injury is poison
will poison all that you recognize
injury is wanton
it likes to placed on a present
Stream “Harm” solely on Atwood Journal, and keep tuned for extra to come back from Salim Nourallah over these subsequent twelve months as he continues share “new” (to us) songs from his seemingly limitless vault. Stunning and brutal suddenly, this track really aches in the perfect of how.
we’re dancing on a razor’s edge
we’re dancing, tumble off the ledge
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