Premiere: Matt Taelor vows to change his ways with new single, ‘Everything’
The indie-rock singer tries to make things right.
The line between “wrong and right” is a thin one, a tightrope routine, really. Many of us spend our entire lives struggling to differentiate between the two and often fall prey to our own vices, hurting the ones we love in the process. Matt Taelor summons upon this moral grey area for a new song called “Everything,” which mixes a hip-hop groove with classic rock riffs. “Can you hear the commotion lately? I can hear it loud. Nearly lost my mind trying to make ends meet,” he sings, opening the story as a struggling parent or other family member attempting to put food on the table. But his greatest fear soon comes to fruition, and he must make some hard choices, morally ambiguous ones at that, leaving him drained and even more dishonest.
“[This is] a story of a desperate man who has done some bad things and made some mistakes but is trying to care for his loved ones,” Taelor tells B-Sides & Badlands. Drawing upon his signature indie-rock vibes, he pushes to deliver a musically adventurous new entry into his catalog. Later, expresses a dire lamentation, singing, “They bring me down to my knees again / I can barely suffer one more blow / I know that times are tryin’ and I’m dyin’ to let you know.”
Wishing that he “was an honest man,” he ponders his lacking moral fibers, knowing full well he’s “made a mess of things,” he sings, “but I was sinning for those I love.” Soaked with “grooves in the verses,” the song then “opens up to be a big rock n’ roll chorus that helps give soul and emotion to the dark and vulnerable lyrics,” he adds.
Last summer, Taelor dropped the After Midnight EP, a debut collection of rough-hewen songs about love and loss.
“Everything” is out everywhere tomorrow (Feb. 16).
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