Friday, December 8, 2017

“Lost In You Now” by Written Years – A Song Review

     The track only travels a short distance before the percussion comes thundering in, insuring that “Lost In You Now” isn’t treated as white noise by an otherwise preoccupied listener. The percussion throughout the track tends to sit in the lower frequencies, in contrast to the backing vocals using the falsetto range (“I’m not lost in you now”) and the keys which carry stability and increased texturing into the melody.

     Written Years are based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The members are Wade Ouellet (vocals, guitar, and keys), Kane Enders (drums), Brian Dyck (bass, synthesizers), and Alex Richardson (guitar, vocals). 

     Quoting the story of Written Years:
  "In the three-year transitional period following their dark-horse debut, independent members of the band experienced personal hardships that would then trouble the recording of their new material. Off the cuff of that album’s excitement, the Vancouver-based quartet (composed of primary songwriter, Wade Ouellet, along with Kane Enders, Brian Dyck, and Alex Richardson) was quick to pursue a set of songs they had readied for a follow-up release - before a complete deadlock halted its completion.
  Ouellet experienced a sudden and unexplained speech loss – causing him to refrain from speaking in near-isolation for months. What started with a thought-to-be-near-finished record, turned into many insomnia-driven nights and a lyrical blueprint resembling a Brooklyn detective’s office. During this time, both Richardson and Enders experienced sudden and dramatic losses of immediate family members, further provoking them to re-asses the previous material. After a period to re-surface, Ouellet began to court the other members in reconstructing, what had originally been, a set of coming-of-age stories into something entirely different. The result, which found much more desperation and black humor in the content, explores the darker corners of suburbia, infatuation, and forbidden love - delivered through a provocative wine-soaked rally cry. The band describes this, in contrast with their own late night fluorescent backdrop, as music for “the 2am comedown”.
  "Lost In You Now," Written Years’ latest single and follow up release, shows an undeniable fire in four people resisting the impact of a lawless and uncertain period. The song (and 2018 full-length) was produced and mixed by the Vancouver’s own Ryan Worsley (Dear Rouge, Said The Whale) and was co-produced by the band."

     “Lost In You Now” by Written Years 


Lyrics of “Lost In You Now” by Written Years
After dark in a crowded apartment
My head's caving in with silence
I am here, are you with me?

We slowly wilt with the crackle and stream
Of a muddy aging feeling
Are you still breathing with me?

I'm still tearing apart, but I can't find you
Screaming inside 'til I come to
I'm not lost in you now
I'm not lost in you now

Now we're on the corner, our lungs on fire
My mind's buzzing with the streetlights
I am here, but are you with me?

And somewhere in all of this noise
I'll find something that's real
And somewhere in all of this noise
I'll take anything real

I'm still tearing apart but I can't find you
Screaming inside 'til I come to
I'm not lost in you now
I'm not lost in you now

With my heart on the wire, I've lost my head
Inside of your arms, I'm still searching
For the back of the crowd
For the back of the crowd

Somewhere in all of this noise
I'll find something that's real
And somewhere in all of this noise
I'll take anything real

I'm still tearing apart but I can't find you
Screaming inside 'til I come to
I'm not lost in you now
I'm not lost in you now

With my heart on the wire
I've lost my head
Inside of your arms, I'm still searching
For the back of the crowd
And I'm not lost in you now

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