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Since 2007, Nixon Boyd has been playing guitar in the Canadian indie rock band Hollerado. Last month, he announced his debut solo album Every Time We Turn A Corner and shared "Trouble Of Your Own." Now, he's back with "How I Know I'm Home."
"How I Know I'm Home" is melancholy, acoustic beauty in the vein of Elliott Smith or Nick Drake. About the song, Boyd says:
A few years ago my friend Luke Doucet showed me open D tuning, and this is the first thing I wrote in that tuning that I liked. I structured it to have this long winded melody so that there’s space for a detailed and kind of rambling monologue leading into the “that’s how I know I’m home” lyric in the chorus. I think it gives the effect of blurting out words and saying way too much the way I sometimes find myself doing when I’m trying to express something really earnest and heartfelt. Arrangement-wise, this is pretty sparse but it’s also the only song on the record with a synthesizer in it. I felt like the arrangement needed a bit of glue and I tried strings and horns, but they felt way too serious and heavy, so I used my Moog Sub 37 and it felt like it provided warmth without feeling too formal. I know the topic might be a bit cheesy but I was an army brat growing up and was always moving around, so I spent a lot of time figuring out what home actually means.
Boyd worked on the LP in his converted auto shop studio in Ontario until one day, when it was almost finished, the hard drive with the record was stolen from his car. He then spent a year trying to recreate what he'd lost. Hear "How I Know I'm Home" below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Every Time We Turn A Corner"
02 "Blindfolded"
03 "Golden Days"
04 "Trouble Of Your Own"
05 "I Wonder If I Will"
06 "Never In A Million Years"
07 "You Will Always Get Away With It"
08 "Sleepover"
09 "Everything Afterwards"
10 "Tossing And Turning"
11 "How I Know I’m Home"
Every Time We Turn A Corner is self-released on 7/3.
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