I’ve spent most of the day wondering whether I was in a bad mood on this Tuesday that feels like a Monday, because none of the songs I listened to grabbed me. I was starting to lose hope than anything would excite me today when I wrapped my ears around “Fighting With the Devil,” the new single from Sydney musician Chris Arnott.
This is stellar stuff, as you might expect from a musician with nearly two decades experience in the business. Make sure you hone in to the lyrics, which Chris penned in memory of a close friend who lost his own battle with the devil.
“Alas, he is just one of a growing number and it absolutely breaks my heart,” Chris said. “I wanted a super simple approach to this song, the overall tone is quite bleak and flat, the rhodes detuned to the hilt and the timpani ostinato unrelenting, not unlike the depression that consumes too many of us. But most of all it is pretty, because, for the most part, life is.”
The song was a real labour of love for Chris, who wrote, recorded, and produced the track himself. If you only make time to listen to one song today, make it this one.
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