Darrin Hacquard has solely co-written a tune as soon as. And “October Moon” is the outcome. “My pal Jay Jennings Vincent began riffing on a shocking fall image of Hocking Hills, Ohio, the place I’m from: ‘The hills are alive with autumnal demise, and I suppose I’ll be seeing you quickly.’”
Hacquard thought the road was incredible. “We stored going backwards and forwards, buying and selling strains till we had a whole piece,” he says. “Fall being a time of reflection for me, I took the poem within the course of lamenting misplaced love—a doomed montage of tumultuous romantic encounters.”
That is the informal approach Hacquard operates for essentially the most half. His 2015 debut, Indicators And Wonders, started as a lark with mates, a ruggedly psychedelic, modestly cinematic tackle bluegrass and rock funded by a $5,000 Kickstarter marketing campaign. As destiny would have it, a number of of its songs discovered their approach onto the soundtrack for The Night Hour, with Hacquard performing on the 2020 Sundance Movie Pageant premiere. He selected to not capitalize on that momentum, transferring round for varied development and flooring jobs earlier than discovering his strategy to Lexington, Ky. There he discovered the musicians who’d assist nurture his new LP, Weights And Measures—guys like Hayden Miles, drummer for acclaimed indie-twang outfit Wayne Graham.
“Darrin is certainly one of my favourite songwriters working as we speak,” says Miles, the animator behind the “October Moon” video. “His songs instantly carry photographs to thoughts, taking part in out to the rhythm of the music. Bringing these photographs to an animated video was a enjoyable and fascinating problem.”
Hacquard describes “October Moon” as “considerably fictional,” although it does replicate the lifetime of its creator. “The eerie chord development and melody got here to me, so I recorded the tune solo acoustic in our basement studio in Lexington,” says Hacquard. “I left city for per week, and once I got here again, my roommate and producer, Severn Edmondson, had turned it right into a sprawling cinematic masterpiece equal components spaghetti Western and haunted Chinese language restaurant. The cherry on high is Hayden’s animated grasp work, bringing the story to life in a superb, psychedelic Hanna-Barbera trend.”
We’re proud to premiere Darrin Hacquard’s “October Moon.” Weights And Measures is out October 17 by way of Like You Imply It.
—Hobart Rowland
