“A picture of a frustrated musician driving themselves onwards, regardless of whether the terminus is a brighter horizon or total breakdown.” That’s how we described ‘Try‘, the first single from POSTDATA‘s forthcoming album Run Wild on Paper Bag Records. But if the song suggested a linear quality to this constant motion, then the album works to dispel the idea, actively seeking to jolt itself free from the rails. “I felt like it was time to take POSTDATA someplace new, and be a little more free with what it is,” Paul Murphy explains. “I was trying to go all-out stylistically, and trying to flesh out all the different places that it could actually take it. I wanted to give it more space, allow it to go wherever it needed to.” Run Wild is the title for a reason. Forward motion can be achieved in any direction.
The title track and latest single embraces this spirit, offering the brightest, most inventive POSTDATA sound so far. A love song which gives in to the sensation, ceding control of the situation to instead follow the flow wherever it might go. In this way, the theme and style of the track are in total cohesion. A parking of old ideas and expectations, and opening up to new possibilities.
Maybe I’m a dead man oh me, oh Play me right in your hands
Oh I can’t wait to see
My love, my dark hold your spark you’re whose sake I keep My love my dark light my spark hold your love for me
My love my lark my spark
You light my dreams my darlingRun wild, let your dreams run wild
Art and design by James Mejia