Taste Test: Neel Kumar depicts heavy exhaustion with new song, ‘Take Me Now’
The singer-songwriter admits to feeling totally drained, emotionally.
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Sometimes, you just feel like your life is an endlessly uphill climb. It can be crushing, specifically one’s mental capacity to wade through and eventually out of it. Singer-songwriter Neel Kumar captures that grueling emotional tangle with his new song. On “Take Me Now,” he allows his acoustic guitar to thread the story together, his voice simply a spectral, nearly out of body, moving in tortured, yet vibrant, brushstrokes. “I’m not scared to die / Terrified of time,” he confides. He pulls you into his darkened corner of the world and admits to feeling drained. He’s broken but not willing to give in totally just yet. He nears the edge but quickly retreats. It’s a simple and undeniably effective moment.
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