The song is taken from their forthcoming sophomore album 'Bloom Off The Rose', which will be available on July 16 through Shelflife Records/Discos de Kirlian. Pre-order your copy here.
Always You is made up of brothers Anton and Christoph Hochheim, who are best known for their time as part of the New York synth-pop group, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart with Anton also an active member of the band, Beach Fossils.
“The subject matter is life as vignettes,” Christoph describes, “Snapshots and stories of my relationships, mainly the one I'm just coming out of as viewed from different moments in our timeline, often projected imagined futures and mourning losses yet to come.”
These sentiments of growth and change ring bright and true with this first single, "Black City Nights", a track that thrives and reverberates in the spatial city light luster, something underpinned further with the accompanying visual which finds the pair working as chauffeurs around a neon-coated city, transporting lost souls and forgotten heroes. Here, Anton, Christoph, and company encapsulate the brightest moments of their past two decades of experience, seamlessly executing an assertive take on indie-pop economics, filled with glistening guitars and incandescent beams of synth.
Speaking about the new single, Christoph of the band says: "'Black City Nights' is a song for the disheveled and defeated, a vivid depiction of long sleepless nights, chasing ghosts of one’s past and future, lost bets, and blind optimism that the next big break is just around the corner. It’s about loneliness and what people do to escape it, as well as the hopefulness that keeps us pushing through."
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