We are inordinately privileged and honoured to bring you a first listen to the new single ‘Museum Day’ from one of Backseat Mafia’s favourite artists, Coyle Girelli: the English troubadour based in New York City.
Coasting along on a bright dappled instrumental sound, Girelli’s crooner vocals are cool and expressive with the kind of sonorous timbre that recalls Matt Berninger from The National, but with added verve and expression. Girelli’s continued strength is his inherent pop sensibilities that are cloaked in a sense of deep yearning and romanticism, and ‘Museum Day’ is no exception: an incandescent ray of filtered joy, tempered with a guilding of melancholy, eloquently expressing desire and love.
The lyrics essentially express the unadulterated heady thrill of love, where even the most mundane activity is drenched in joy:
I want to go out
anywhere with you
It don’t matter where we go tonight
It don’t matter where we go tonight
I want to go out
anywhere with you
It don’t matter where we go tonight
It don’t matter where we go tonight
Girelli says of the track:
Museum Day is a more upbeat indie vibe than I’ve done for a while. It sounds like a hot summer’s night on the town in New York City, without the hangover in the morning. It’s about a moment. A memory. A happy one. A perfect one. Something you crave and miss and want.
The high stepping trot is given buoyancy by the Johnny Marr-esque guitar riffs that seemingly skip like a sugar-loaded child and anthemic melodies that would make Harry Styles wilt with envy:
The ultimate pleasure is the layers in the track: the blinding light emanating from the instrumentation, the optimistic and carefree lyrics that express the euphoric yet problematic nature of obsessive love, all delivered in vocals that seem antithetically steeped in raw emotion and pain. It’s a beautiful mix.
Girelli worked with Grammy Award-winning producer Lorenzo Wolff (Taylor Swift, Kayne West), and also teamed up on ‘Museum Day’ with Patrick Dillett (The National, St Vincent, David Byrne) mixing, and mastering by Greg Calbi.
‘Museum Day’ eases its way into the world on Wednesday, 14 June 2023 and will be available on all the usual download and streaming sites – you can pre-save it here.
This is the first taste of a new album on the way. Girelli says:
I’m very excited to be releasing this one as the first new music from my new upcoming album. It was the first one that came together so it just naturally pushed its way to the front of the line.
There’ll be quite a line to listen to this one.
Feature Photograph: Shervin Lainez
1 comment
Completely lovely , Thank you