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Premiere: Nick Gusman & the Coyotes dissect the ‘Sound of a Broken Heart’
Gusman and his musical companions hit the open road to escape their pain.
No one ever tells you this: heartache is just like any other type of grief. You’re often left wandering in your anxiety-riddled thoughts, unable to breathe or do much of anything. With Nick Gusman & the Coyotes’ new song “Sound of a Broken Heart,” premiering today on B-Sides & Badlands, the narrator goes for some literal and metaphorical traveling. “When the echoes of last wake me up at dawn, there’s a ghost of you dancing to a slow country song,” sings frontman Nick Gusman. Misery laces his lips, as the past flickers inside his mind’s eye.
Gusman puts as many miles behind him as he possibly can. The weariness in his voice stems from both the heart-rending pain and the exhaustion and cold setting into his bones. “I don’t know where I’m running to with these empty hands,” he admits, looking forlorn out at the horizon. “There’s people all around me, but I don’t know where to stand.” He hangs onto the past like an hourglass losing all its sand. It’s a futile effort, so he simply takes another dirt-crusted step to the next town, in the hope that more distance will be the salve he desperately needs.
“Sound of a Broken Heart,” hitting digital retailers tomorrow, “really moves like a Tom Petty song and the backup vocals lift it to anthemic heights,” Gusman says. It’s an apt description for a song that does quite a bit of travelin’, both internally and externally, with its mental mechanics turning like cogs in a grandfather clock.
“Sound of a Broken Heart” samples the midwestern band’s third studio effort, Lifting Heavy Things, out everywhere on December 7.
Listen to “Sound of a Broken Heart” below.
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