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 occasions like these, generally all we would like is to really feel emotionally cradled and protected.
Flyte, the London-based indie songwriter duo comprised of Will Taylor and Nick Hill, provide us that protected 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 one “I’m Not There” (launched February 14, 2025), a soberingly sincere exploration of private trauma and self-love.
Combining their forces with BRIT Award Profitable 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, selfmade feeling.
Emotional and bare in its fact, “I’m Not There” speaks aloud the ideas of somebody struggling to remain current in a relationship.
“Though common remedy and the ever-enlightening follow of songwriting has helped me immensely over time, a scarcity of self-love, self-forgiveness, and the bags of household trauma nonetheless hangs round – generally closely,” Taylor shares. “This music was written underneath a very dense cloud, with a wet mind. I used to be draining my unconscious, not current within the slightest.”
‘Trigger how can I inform you, I’m nowhere?
I’m breathless, I’m sizzling air
If it’s heavy, I can maintain it
Perhaps an excessive amount of, whenever 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 smooth place to land atop breezy drums, folky guitar strums, and feathery piano flutters. The music has an power adjoining to 1 you’d discover in Nick Drake’s discography – straightforward on the ears and profoundly poetic.
“It’s a completely reside efficiency, lower proper in 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 may 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 music so becoming for these melancholic occasions, 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 energy 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 direction of the trail of therapeutic.
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