Henry Green fuses traditional songwriting with contemporary, spacious production on "Real"
“Real”, the newest track from Bristol-based musician Henry Green, is an echoing fusion of traditional songwriting and contemporary, spacious production.
Fans of The XX and London Grammar will happily lose themselves in Green’s ambient soundscapes and ambiguously sultry lyrics.
“I remember feeling really excited when writing “Real”,” Green recounts, of the track’s beginnings. “It started out as a load of lyrical ideas and a simple chord progression on piano, but there was something intriguing about the mood being created. A lot of the ideas were formed whilst on tour in Europe, but it was the week after, once I’d had time to reflect, that the song really took shape and I started to build up its production. The song is about allowing yourself to feel everything that there is to feel in one moment, not holding back and feeling complete euphoria.”
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