First Listen: Nate Leavitt “Take Me Back”
Nate Leavitt has come to be known as a songwriter who can break your heart in 30 seconds of listening to one of his songs. His last record doesn’t release for a few months but we got an exclusive taste of whats to come from the Boston based singer-songwriter and the band of local juggernauts he has surrounded himself with.
The first track from the songwriter’s next EP, Someone Send a Signal (due out April 22), certainly hints on the writer’s previously established vulnerabilities and the intensely introspective nature of his writing in lyrical content but is a rollicking and moving tune in it’s sonic context. With vibrant guitar work and some harmonies with a pop sentiment and uptempo feel it may not necessarily scream (or cry)that downtrodden vibe I have gotten from the songwriter in the past, but the lyrical nature of his words maintain that sense of longing and moodiness. We said his debut solo release was soaked with “a deep amount of heart, sorrow and persistence…” and a songwriter who “writes about the darkest of human emotion that some folks are just plain afraid to touch on. These songs make me feel something, which is what music is supposed to do.” Those sentiments ring true in this follow up release. Leavitt is always able to inject that sense of yearning into his music, self-deprecating in a very balanced kind of a way where you can feel a man’s pain, desire and repentance. And man, that feeling feels good.
Leavitt says about working in the studio for this record: “There’s an inexplicable feeling I get when entering a recording studio and locking the doors on the world outside. If the faders on the mixing console could talk what would they say? Every musician in there knows it’s time to work and perform at their best. After all you don’t want to let the ghosts in the studio down. Being in a recording studio is a lot like taking refuge in a bunker. There’s an us against the world feeling while holed up together and creating with a band. You hope to come out blazing once you’re finished”.
The release of Nate Leavitt and the Elevation’s full EP Someone Send a Signal hits on April 22, but for now enjoy this early release track.
(Photo credit: Johnny Anguish)
