Penny and Sparrow make the onerous questions look simple on “Breakdown,” an intimate, sincere, and playful indie folks confessional – and the ultimate single taken off their long-awaited eighth album, ‘Lefty.’
“Breakdown” – Penny and Sparrow
We can by no means know for positive if we’ll be accepted for who we’re by these round us.
However we will positive as heck attempt to discover out. Everybody deserves to be liked and accepted unconditionally: Typically you simply cross your fingers, relying on a wing and a prayer that the cracks don’t present – however then once more, pretending to be somebody you’re not by no means helped anyone. Higher to simply be your true self, which is precisely how Penny and Sparrow method the state of affairs on their newest single, asking point-blank: If I’ve a breakdown, whereas I’m gone, will you continue to love me?
An intimate indie folks confessional, “Breakdown” asks the onerous questions with out complication or over-scrutiny. It’s sincere and direct, actual and uncooked – an attractive show of the human situation.
If I’ve a breakdown, whereas I’m gone
If I’ve a breakdown, whereas I’m gone
Will you continue to love me?
I would you recognize?
However hey I nonetheless obtained to go
What if I cry each present
And it’s hey look out under?
Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Breakdown,” the seventh (and remaining) single taken off Penny and Sparrow’s eighth studio album, Lefty (out January 31st, 2025 by way of I Love You / Thirty Tigers). The extremely anticipated follow-up to the duo’s 2022 report Olly Olly – praised by Atwood as “uplifting and free-spirited” upon its launch – has been self-described as a “sprawling and dreamy, uncooked and earnest 20-track odyssey via kinds and moods and concepts.”
“Lefty is a protracted assortment of each actual and made-up issues,” Penny and Sparrow’s Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke share.
“We wrote poetry, true tales, literary fan fiction, horror, erotica, slice-of-life vignettes, dream eventualities, saloon conversations, elegies, a toast, just a few confessions and at the least two love letters.”
“All of them belong collectively as a result of every one is an extension of us, of the issues we love. We’re the ties that bind Lefty.”
If I’ve a breakdown, whereas I’m gone
If I’ve a breakdown,
I hope that you just nonetheless love me
I hope that you just nonetheless love me
If I’ve a breakdown, whereas I’m gone
If I’ve a breakdown, whereas I’m gone
Will you continue to love me?
Tender and heat, but brutally candid and weak , “Breakdown” is a captivating unveiling of a brooding, hopeful coronary heart. With acoustic guitars confidently strumming and drums gently pounding round them, the duo sing about nervousness within the face of budding, burgeoning romance.
“‘Breakdown’ is what it sounds wish to fall in love whereas having a panic assault,” Baxter and Jahnke inform Atwood Journal. “It’s raucous and enjoyable and nerve wracking, like watching a large Rube-Goldberg machine with a excessive stake ending. Will you get stabbed within the coronary heart or win a life with the gorgeous human you’re infatuated with? The one method to discover out is to set off the mechanism and watch.”
I’m on my knees
Panic makes it onerous to breathe
And should you’re nonetheless into me
Then this juice is definitely worth the squeeze
I is usually a rube-Goldberg machine
I can overcomplicate a factor
I could make the dumb shit fascinating
All it’s gonna take is all of your persistence
I CAN BE A LOT
Regardless of what are clearly intense and overwhelming feelings, Penny and Sparrow preserve “Breakdown” on the lighter aspect.
The music is playful and welcoming, sincere and earnest: Enjoyable sufficient to get pleasure from by itself deserves, with out feeling like there’s a specially-prescribed weight pulling us in anyone path. As the ultimate preview off Lefty, it’s additionally a heartwarming reminder of the intimate, honest areas Penny and Sparrow have constructed over the previous fifteen years – and a reminder to stream the album upon its launch this Friday.
Till then, stream “Breakdown” solely on Atwood Journal!
I hope, I hope that you just nonetheless love me
I hope, I hope that you just nonetheless love me
I hope, I hope that you just nonetheless love me
I hope, I hope that you just nonetheless love me
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