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Manny Noir & Psychedelic Ensemble - Where Were You...

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Manny Noir & Psychedelic Ensemble - "Where Were You…" from the 2022 album Nocturne on Everything Is Perfect / LIVE AT THE CLINIC.

Southeast London emcee Manny Noir recently teamed up with producer Psychedelic Ensemble to release the collaborative record Nocturne in June. True to the album’s name, Nocturne is ten tracks of vibey downtempo hip hop perfect for the late hours of the evening. The combination of Manny Noir’s silky flows with Psychedelic Ensemble’s smooth, softly grooving production makes for a sexily uneasy nighttime soundscape.

Our Song of the Day “Where Were You…” hones in on the feelings of longing and betrayal that often permeate the brain upon nightfall. “Where were you when I was hurting / I was hurting /I was hurt,” questions Noir over a thrumming beat punctuated by ghostly synths mimicking the fog of memories best left in the past.

Read the full post and watch the video for Nocturne closing track "Let the Love In," directed by Marlon Francis, at KEXP.org.

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0:00.0

C.O.Grop is a misfit, still not to plot the logistics, let's see the charts, and then I risk it, opportunity I flipped it, packed it up and then I shipped it to the district, black cat, and this, now I'm never out of practice, it's an actor with an actress, this is real laugh with attachments,

0:29.8

cause the price is come from action, no my actions come with traction, like a napkin, to the match, they call it lastly, to the earth, I'm still stuck up in your words, still stuck up in my words, they're telling me you'll be my turn, say how many year I'm next, but I didn't see any less, really feel like I don't have powers, I feel the S or my chest, but I put me with the best, can you see it in my heart, I can see it in my heart, I'm always sort of from the start, never come out in the past, I'm pushing with all of us, the visions that I have,

0:59.8

whilst if I might just be tripling again, like what I did it again, they said it was killing my drier, I'm not by the way that I go for the fence, but when I'm cutting for it ends,一定 don't know that I've been on my fence, their said it was killing it bad, I'm not by the way that I keep running the energy, so I'll see keys down, she's a soci, she's a strawberry, shit a brown, will you and I was hurting,

1:26.5

When I was hurt and I was hurt and I was hurt

1:30.5

She tried to say she's down for me but she isn't down

1:33.5

Try to say she's around for me but she ain't around

1:36.5

Where were you and I was hurt and I was hurt and I was hurt

1:40.5

When I was hurt and I was hurt and I was hurt

1:43.5

Where were you and I was hurt and I was hurt

1:46.5

Cause I'm certain that the pressure but to put your boy to work

1:50.5

And the person that I grew up to ain't what you deserve

1:53.5

Many steps upon this earth and used to live by the bus

1:57.5

But now they kick it by the cup

1:59.5

Situations getting worse, life seems to take its turn

2:03.5

Where were you and I was hurt and I was hurt and I was hurt

2:08.5

When I was hurt

2:10.5

Where were you and I was hurt and I was hurt and I was hurt

2:14.5

Where were you and they tried to talk me down to put me on the shelf

2:18.5

Where were you and it was me and me and Joe's were getting bused

2:21.5

Where were you and I stepped on my soul, oh I'm gonna lie

2:24.5

Cause the lessons are to love

2:26.5

And the progression are to earn

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