Night Shop - Let Me Let It Go
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KEXP
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🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Night Shop - "Let Me Let It Go" from the 2022 album Forever Night on Dangerbird Records.
Night Shop is the solo project of Justin Sullivan, who can often be seen hitting the skins as the touring drummer for Kevin Morby, in addition to playing with Waxahatchee, Hand Habits, The Babies, Anna St. Louis, and LA post-punk outfit Flat Worms. This past February, he unveiled Night Shop’s debut album Forever Night via Dangerbird Records which saw a lot of these prior collaborators give back to their favorite drummer.
Early single and Song of the Day “Let Me Let It Go” features Meg Duffy of Hand Habits on guitar, Jess Williamson, Anna St. Louis and Woods/Purple Mountains’ Jarvis Taveniere providing engineering and co-production alongside Sullivan so it truly is a family affair. The rollicking horn-laden track its inspiration from Dante and Beatrice’s love and “the concept of courtly love,” according to Sullivan. “A journey to hell, the pursuit of art, the Shangri-Las, and finding peace in what is, not how we think things should be.”
The video for the track sees Sullivan fleeing directors Jeff Davenport and Cooper Kenward, sprinting through the streets of LA. “I think we just wanted to offer a sense of escape and abandon that comes with both loving someone and also surrendering our attachment to a certain outcome in regards to that love,” Sullivan explains. “I'm just trying to get at the proper expression of a feeling; in this case, a deep yearning. So I think visually, you want to complement that sense. A desire to see and feel everything and escape from the smallness of your own thoughts.”
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:27.0 | I was halfway through my time on the desert when I got a strange feeling like I had in my birth |
| 0:34.0 | Surrounded by strangers crying in some room, I felt myself at such a removing |
| 0:41.0 | I loved them all but I couldn't say how I just screamed a lot and then I shook my mouth |
| 0:48.0 | I didn't drill, they did too, I saw you in the square, you know I'd recognize you anyway |
| 1:01.0 | We didn't say much, we didn't have to, I knew all my life had I'd be loving you |
| 1:08.0 | And you married young, I never saw you again, not a little day goes by, don't think of me |
| 1:16.0 | Oh, let me let it go, let me let it die, let me let it rise |
| 1:35.0 | When we think it's all gone, that's when it has begun |
| 1:46.0 | Music |
| 2:02.0 | Jesus came back like the practical sun, he said hold up, wait up, what's going on? |
| 2:09.0 | I never said nothing like that but they weren't convinced |
| 2:15.0 | And he said I'll be right back, we saw him cut across the lawn, then we ain't seen him since |
| 2:29.0 | I said the first circle, all the ones we didn't try, the first circle is where I'd set my sights |
| 2:36.0 | I'm talking to the poet, telling him you need the laugh and say that I'll never be the same |
| 2:43.0 | I'll say it's time to toast to the one above, ill you be, we're only talking about love |
| 2:51.0 | Music |
| 2:56.0 | Oh, let me let it go, let me let it die, let me let it rise |
| 3:09.0 | When you think it's all gone, that's when it has begun |
| 3:39.0 | Music |
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