San Francisco’s Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise seize love’s easy pleasures within the jangling “I Know It,” a wistful reverie dwelling in nostalgia’s tender embrace and the newest single taken off their upcoming sophomore album, ‘New Variety Palace.’
Stream: “I Know It” – Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise
Grand gestures might make for nice tales and good television, however in the end, love is in regards to the little issues.
And when that love is misplaced, it’s these little issues we miss essentially the most – whether or not it’s the best way it felt to lock eyes with that particular somebody, or how their smile alone may ship your spirit hovering sky-high. San Francisco’s Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise seize love’s easy pleasures of their new single “I Know It,” a wistful reverie dwelling in nostalgia’s tender embrace.
By way of jangling guitars and gentle, simple melodies, the band dive into acquainted territory – post-breakup heartache and longing – with a refreshingly upbeat sound and an endearing perspective.
There was a second,
love felt like respiratory
There was a second
our stars aligned
Misplaced within the solar with you
The entire time
I jingle jangle
down these desert roads
Your crooked smile in my door
After which it occurred,
one thing occurred
Wildfire in your eyes
I do know it, I do know it
You recognize it too
I really feel it, I really feel it
You’re feeling it too
Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “I Know It,” Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise’s first track of the yr and the lead single off their upcoming sophomore album, New Variety Palace (out March 21, 2025 by way of Kestrel Data). The California rock band’s first single in 1.5 years (the Solar Youngster EP launched in September 2023) serves as a sunny (with a contact of clouds) reintroduction to the trio of Tom Conneely, Alois Cerbu, and Tom Proulx.
Buoyant and bittersweet – with an emphasis on the candy – “I Know It” seems to be again fondly on a loving relationship that got here and went too quickly. Flowing gently from finish to finish, the track embodies the sweetness, the magic, and the facility of simplicity. With simply three repeating chords, the band hit house with stunning grace and pressure, talking to intimate and relatable feelings and a near-universal human expertise.
“‘I Know It’ is a track that has been gestating and altering, rewriting and reshaping itself over the course of the previous couple of years,” Conneely tells Atwood Journal. “Initially, I wrote this and track and launched it with my prior band, Idle Pleasure, though there aren’t many similarities between the 2 variations at this level. The older model was cool, tough and shaky, type of just like the band. As that mission ended and I stored shedding new songs and concepts, the refrain all the time stored popping up in my head, whilst the remainder of the track pale.”
“A few yr or so in the past, my good buddy Tom Proulx and I have been writing lots of songs collectively, or not less than utilizing each other as sounding boards for various lyrics and totally different concepts. Tom made me play easier and higher. Not lots of fancy modifications, often only a few chords, and in that course of, ‘I Know It’ reshaped itself right into a droning, three chord track about love misplaced. Basically, the track consists of easy, true traces pulled from every of our reminiscences.”
“Recording this tune was actually indicative of how we recorded virtually the entire songs on New Variety Palace. It began, clearly, with a Casio keytar that has a bunch of preset beats and precisely three ‘fill buttons’ that have been solely used to point part modifications. That beat was tracked immediately into my cassette recorder, as I hummed alongside, usually holding tabs on the place the totally different sections have been with the aforementioned fill buttons. After that I tracked a number of totally different acoustic guitars and ultimately took the stereo outs of the cassette and bounced them to a better constancy reel-to-reel, the place we completed the bass and different components. Like lots of the music we’ve been writing, Alois Cerbu and myself needed to maintain the drone-like qualities of the Casio beats, and permit that to be a type of basis for harmonies and as many loopy sounds and melodies as we may pack in. My favourite a part of the whole track nonetheless is the intro and the type of ‘breakdown’ midway by means of the place Alois ran the beat and chords by means of a granular synthesizer software program that he wrote.”
“This tune took many iterations to lastly discover its footing, and I’m actually pleased with it. To not say that it received’t change once more, however not less than for now I feel we’re leaving it in a fairly great place.”
“I Know It” is a reminder that easy is sweet – each in music, and in love.
Stream Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise’s new single solely on Atwood Journal, and keep tuned from extra from the San Francisco trio as they proceed to unveil their sophomore album: New Variety Palace is out March 21, 2025 by way of Kestrel Data!
Deep darkish reds and pearly blues
Deep darkish reds and pearly blues
Deep darkish reds and pearly blues
The entire time
I do know it, I do know it
You recognize it too
I really feel it, I really feel it
You’re feeling it too
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