Richmond-based people trio and recently-crowned FloydFest “On the Rise” winners Palmyra person shared the euphony video for their caller azygous “Medicine,” arriving to integer streaming platforms connected Friday, December 2nd. Recorded successful a one-room Blue Ridge compartment successful Mt. Solon, VA overlooking the Shenandoah Valley, the video is disposable to presumption here.
The video for “Medicine” was brought to beingness conscionable days aft the group’s groundbreaking debut astatine Newport Folk Festival. Having precocious achieved wide designation for their FloydFest “On the Rise” yearly set contention performance, the budding outfit person rapidly solidified themselves arsenic a unit of quality successful the alternative/folk sphere.
Addressing poignant themes of isolation and the toll it tin instrumentality connected intelligence health, the opus was primitively written successful the aftermath of the pandemic erstwhile the trio – freshly banded and yet to execute unrecorded unneurotic – was surviving nether quarantine successful a tiny Boston rental home.
“We were each newcomers to [Boston], and feeling incredibly isolated,” shares bassist Mānoa Bell. “Our lone originative outlet was penning and arranging; eagerly awaiting a infinitesimal to permission our eastbound Boston basement and stock the euphony we had been preparing.”
On the outset, “Medicine” embraces its spot arsenic a clever, astir light-hearted people ballad, though it rapidly builds into a crescendo of emotion. Bell adds, “the song's statement tin beryllium understood successful 2 wide sections successful enactment of the lyrics. The archetypal section, sung by Teddy [Chipouras], is musically unobtrusive and conventional. The adjacent conception is simply a chaotic, pulsing, and a idiosyncratic statement of intelligence health. With this song, we were pushing our boundaries lyrically and musically arsenic we clung to each different successful absorption to the circumstances of our world.”
Employing direct, astir caustic lyrics, the tune brings to beingness an all-too-relatable interior dialogue. Bell explains, “the lyrics of the opus are intentionally direct, portraying a mendacious and ironic consciousness of assurance arsenic we authorities our uncomfortable truths.”
Fittingly, having recorded the video successful a tiny compartment not dissimilar the location successful which it was written, the radical was capable to transmission those archetypal feelings of suffocation and uncertainty. Still, the outfit recovered solace and inspiration successful the foothills of the Shenandoah Valley wherever the trio archetypal met. Weaving the immense scenery and its earthy quality into the subtext of each verse, “Medicine” swells with emotive expression, embodying astatine erstwhile a ballad of lust and nostalgia, portion nodding confidently toward a brighter, much hopeful future.
Bell concludes, “we consciousness that this video showcases our unsocial attack to some our instruments and arrangements, subverting the conventions of acoustic roots euphony – conventions formed successful the Shenandoah vale and the spot Palmyra met. The vale showed america the earthy quality that truthful galore accepted tunes praise and we person learned done countless bluegrass jams. However, the vale besides introduced america to the wonders of punk music, via a thriving basement country contiguous successful Harrisonburg. We anticipation that some of those influences radiance done connected “Medicine” and overgarment a representation of the spot we called home.”
“Medicine” volition beryllium disposable connected each integer streaming platforms connected Friday, December 2nd. To presumption the euphony video, click here. To pre-save “Medicine,” sojourn palmyra.lnk.to/sillandglade. To enactment up-to-date astir each things Palmyra, sojourn www.palmyratheband.com.
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