San Francisco’s Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise seize love’s easy pleasures within the jangling “I Know It,” a wistful reverie dwelling in nostalgia’s tender embrace and the newest single taken off their upcoming sophomore album, ‘New Form Palace.’
Stream: “I Know It” – Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise
Grand gestures might make for excellent tales and good television, however in the end, love is concerning the little issues.
And when that love is misplaced, it’s these little issues we miss essentially the most – whether or not it’s the way in which it felt to lock eyes with that particular somebody, or how their smile alone might ship your spirit hovering sky-high. San Francisco’s Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise seize love’s easy pleasures of their new single “I Know It,” a wistful reverie dwelling in nostalgia’s tender embrace.
By jangling guitars and gentle, simple melodies, the band dive into acquainted territory – post-breakup heartache and longing – with a refreshingly upbeat sound and an endearing perspective.
There was a second,
love felt like respiration
There was a second
our stars aligned
Misplaced within the solar with you
All the time
I jingle jangle
down these desert roads
Your crooked smile in my door
After which it occurred,
one thing occurred
Wildfire in your eyes
I do know it, I do know it
You understand it too
I really feel it, I really feel it
You are feeling it too
Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “I Know It,” Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise’s first tune of the yr and the lead single off their upcoming sophomore album, New Form Palace (out March 21, 2025 through Kestrel Data). The California rock band’s first single in 1.5 years (the Solar Youngster EP launched in September 2023) serves as a sunny (with a contact of clouds) reintroduction to the trio of Tom Conneely, Alois Cerbu, and Tom Proulx.
Buoyant and bittersweet – with an emphasis on the candy – “I Know It” seems to be again fondly on a loving relationship that got here and went too quickly. Flowing gently from finish to finish, the tune embodies the sweetness, the magic, and the facility of simplicity. With simply three repeating chords, the band hit residence with shocking grace and pressure, chatting with intimate and relatable feelings and a near-universal human expertise.
“‘I Know It’ is a tune that has been gestating and altering, rewriting and reshaping itself over the course of the previous few years,” Conneely tells Atwood Journal. “Initially, I wrote this and tune and launched it with my prior band, Idle Pleasure, though there should not many similarities between the 2 variations at this level. The older model was cool, tough and shaky, type of just like the band. As that mission ended and I saved shedding new songs and concepts, the refrain all the time saved popping up in my head, at the same time as the remainder of the tune pale.”
“A couple of yr or so in the past, my good pal Tom Proulx and I had been writing loads of songs collectively, or no less than utilizing each other as sounding boards for various lyrics and totally different concepts. Tom made me play less complicated and higher. Not loads of fancy modifications, often only a few chords, and in that course of, ‘I Know It’ reshaped itself right into a droning, three chord tune about love misplaced. Basically, the tune consists of straightforward, true strains pulled from every of our recollections.”
“Recording this tune was actually indicative of how we recorded virtually the entire songs on New Form Palace. It began, clearly, with a Casio keytar that has a bunch of preset beats and precisely three ‘fill buttons’ that had been solely used to point part modifications. That beat was tracked instantly into my cassette recorder, as I hummed alongside, typically retaining tabs on the place the totally different sections had been with the aforementioned fill buttons. After that I tracked a couple of totally different acoustic guitars and ultimately took the stereo outs of the cassette and bounced them to the next constancy reel-to-reel, the place we completed the bass and different components. Like loads of the music we’ve been writing, Alois Cerbu and myself wished to maintain the drone-like qualities of the Casio beats, and permit that to be a type of basis for harmonies and as many loopy sounds and melodies as we might pack in. My favourite a part of the complete tune nonetheless is the intro and the type of ‘breakdown’ midway by means of the place Alois ran the beat and chords by means of a granular synthesizer software program that he wrote.”
“This tune took many iterations to lastly discover its footing, and I’m actually pleased with it. To not say that it received’t change once more, however no less than for now I believe we’re leaving it in a reasonably great place.”
“I Know It” is a reminder that straightforward is nice – each in music, and in love.
Stream Tom Conneely & Birds of Paradise’s new single completely on Atwood Journal, and keep tuned from extra from the San Francisco trio as they proceed to unveil their sophomore album: New Form Palace is out March 21, 2025 through Kestrel Data!
Deep darkish reds and pearly blues
Deep darkish reds and pearly blues
Deep darkish reds and pearly blues
All the time
I do know it, I do know it
You understand it too
I really feel it, I really feel it
You are feeling it too
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