‘Long Way to Go’ is the new single from New Zealand dream pop artist Nik Brinkman’s upcoming album ‘World Within’, and it’s a welcome return.
Brinkman last blew us away here at Backseat Mafia back in 2021 with his debut album ‘Secret Stairs’ (see my review here) and in the intervening time has been utilising his skills with other artists as well as moving to a new town and reinvigorating his music writing and recording process. Brinkman says of the new matarial:
I wanted to escape the world of modern music tools for this album and make a record with no MIDI and also an album I could easily translate to a live setting. I like the immediacy of physical instruments and not having to draw sounds in with a mouse which I always find myself doing these days.
‘Long Way To Go’ has a dreamy hazy languid psychedelic feel with its jangling guitars and Brinkman’s yearning melancholic vocals, creating a lazy sunny afternoon feeling when the mind wanders in a kaleidoscopic fugue:
‘Long Way To Go’ is out now through Declared Goods/Fine Art Records and available to download and stream through the link above and here.
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